RECURRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recurring mean? 

• RECURRING (adjective)
  The adjective RECURRING has 1 sense:

1. coming back

  Familiarity information: RECURRING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECURRING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming back

Synonyms:

recurring; revenant

Context example:

a revenant ghost

Similar:

continual (recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series)

 Context examples 

The study found women with a low risk of the cancer recurring didn't benefit from chemotherapy.

(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)

Recurring supersecondary structures characterized by 20 amino acids folding into two alpha helices connected by a non-helical "loop" segment.

(Helix-Loop-Helix Domain, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Others help manage recurring problems, like migraines.

(Over-the-Counter Medicines, Food and Drug Administration)

The recurring words, “water pressure” and “pressure to the square inch” suggested some possible relation to a submarine.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

More than 1 in 10 people in the US experience recurring headaches known as migraines.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

It is manifested with recurring urinary tract infections.

(Chronic bacterial prostatitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Eleanor made no answer; and Catherine's thoughts recurring to something more directly interesting, she added, thinking aloud, Monday—so soon as Monday; and you all go.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Continually recurring or continuing without interruption.

(Constant, NCI Thesaurus)

A recessive X-linked defect of leukocyte function in which phagocytic cells ingest but fail to digest bacteria, resulting in recurring bacterial infections with granuloma formation.

(Chronic Granulomatous Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A WHO grade II, usually recurring meningioma characterized by the predominance of tissues that are histologically similar to chordoma.

(Chordoid Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)