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Recurrence vs Repeating - What's the difference?

recurrence | repeating |

As nouns the difference between recurrence and repeating

is that recurrence is recurrence (return or reversion to a certain state) while repeating is repetition.

As a verb repeating is

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As an adjective repeating is

that repeats; repetitive.

recurrence

English

(wikipedia recurrence)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Return or reversion to a certain state.
  • The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
    • I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. — I. Taylor.
  • A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
  • Recourse.

    • Synonyms

    * reoccurrence

    Hyponyms

    * recrudescence * reemergence * resurgence

    Related terms

    * recur * recurrent * recursive * recursivity * recursion

    References

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    repeating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That repeats; repetitive.
  • Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging.
  • (mathematics) Of a decimal: recurring.

    • Related terms

    * repeating back * repeating circle * repeating coil

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • repetition
  • * 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
    • What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings , cannot be conceiv'd