Re-cûr', v. i.
v. i. [imp. & p. p. RECURRED; p. pr. & vb. n. RECURRING.] [Lat. recurrere, from re, again, back, and currere, to run; Fr. recourir, Pr. recorre, Sp. recurrir, Pg. recorrer, It. ricorrere.] 1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. Watts.
- To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.
- To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.
If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the “punctum stans” of the schools, they will very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration. Locke.
Recurring decimal. See DECIMAL.—Recurring series (Math.), an algebraic series in which the co-efficients of the several terms can be expressed by means of certain preceding co-efficients and constants in one uniform manner.