Recur

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)/

Origin

From Latin recurro ("run back")

Full definition of recur

Verb

1. (now rare) To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.
• 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 43:She only replied with a laugh, and he evidently deemed futile the bid for sympathy on the score of religious or irreligious fellowship, for he recurred to it no more.
2. (intransitive) To happen again.The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
3. (intransitive, computing) To recurse.

Derived terms

• recurrent
• recurrence

Related terms

• recurse
• recursive, recursively
• recursivity
• reoccur
• recourse

Anagrams

• curer