recurrence (n.)

"a return; the act of recurring," 1640s; see recurrent + -ence. Related: Recurrency (1610s).

also from 1640s

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"returning from time to time, reappearing, repeated," 1660s, from French recurrent (16c.) and directly from Latin recurrentem (nominative recurrens), present participle of recurrere "run back, hasten back, return" (see recur). From 1590s as a noun ("recurrent artery or nerve," one turned back on itself).

reoccurrence (n.)

also re-occurrence, "a further occurrence," 1804; see re- "again" + occurrence. Also compare recurrence.

-ence

see -ance.

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return

early 14c., returnen, "to come back, come or go back to a former position" (intransitive), from Old French retorner, retourner "turn back, turn round, return" (Modern French retourner), from re- "back" (see re-) + torner "to turn" (see turn (v.)). Also in part from Medieval Latin

frequency

Sense in physics, "rate of recurrence," especially of a vibration, is from 1831....

chore

"a small job or task," especially "a piece of minor domestic work of regular or frequent recurrence," 1751, American English...

period

early 15c., periode, "a course or extent of time; a cycle of recurrence of a disease," from Old French periode (14c.) and...

The process is "of constant recurrence" in the 15c. vocabularies, according to Thomas Wright, their modern editor....

repetition

early 15c., repeticioun, "act of saying over again," from Old French repetition and directly from Latin repetitionem (nominative repetitio) "a repeating," noun of action from past-participle stem of repetere "do or say again" (see repeat (v.)). Of actions or events recurring or d

repeat

late 14c., repēten "to say what one has already said," from Old French repeter "say or do again, get back, demand the return of" (13c., Modern French répéeter) and directly from Latin repetere "do or say again; attack again," from re- "again" (see re-) + petere "to go to; attack;

reversion

late 14c., reversioun, a legal word used in reference to the return of an estate to the heirs of a grantor on the expiration of the grant, from Old French reversion and directly from Latin reversionem (nominative reversio) "act of turning back," noun of action from past-participl

atavism

1833, in biology, "reversion by influence of heredity to ancestral characteristics, resemblance of a given organism to some remote ancestor, return to an early or original type," from French atavisme, attested by 1820s, said to have been coined by French botanist Antoine-Nicolas

genius

late 14c., "tutelary or moral spirit" who guides and governs an individual through life, from Latin genius "guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth; spirit, incarnation; wit, talent;" also "prophetic skill; the male spirit of a gens," originally "genera

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