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What is the adjective for recurrence?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs recur, reoccur and recurse which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

recursive
  1. drawing upon itself, referring back.
  2. (mathematics) of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
  3. (computing) of a program or function that calls itself
  4. (computing theory, not comparable, of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
  5. (computing theory, not comparable, of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “In other words, the recursive action of fictional analysis reconstructs and reconfigures the power of the word through learning about the text.”
      “The paper investigated sets of indices of partial recursive functions and of recursively enumerable sets.”
      “Modern proof theory, and likewise the modern theory of machine computation, hinge on the concept of the recursive function.”
recurrent
  1. Recurring time after time.
  2. (mathematics) non-transient.
  3. Running back toward its origin.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Purchase this type of shrub rose, and you'll have a recurrent bloomer that will flower several times a year.”
      “The primary outcome was the combined outcome of time to all cause death or time to recurrent congestive heart failure.”
      “When given from the brachial trunk, the radial recurrent has been found crossing beneath the tendon of the biceps.”
recurring
recurred
reoccured
reoccuring
recursed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of recurse
recursing
  1. present participle of recurse
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