Recurring vs Recurred - What's the difference?
recurring | recurred |
Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
(mathematics) Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
(recur)
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.
To happen again.
(computing) To recurse.
As verbs the difference between recurring and recurred
is that recurring is while recurred is (recur).As an adjective recurring
is happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.recurring
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)- He has recurring asthma attacks.
- Revenge is a recurring theme in this novel.
- Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.
Synonyms
* recurrent * repetitiverecurred
English
Verb
(head)recur
English
Verb
(recurr)- The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
