Recurring means occurring repeatedly and can refer to several different things:
- Recurring expense, an ongoing (continual) expenditure
- Curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP), a software design pattern
- Recursion, a computer programming subroutine/method/function that calls itself from within its body
- Recurring (album), a 1991 album by the British psychedelic-rock group, Spacemen 3
- Recurring decimal (or "repeating decimal"), a real number in the decimal numeral system in which a sequence of digits repeats infinitely
- Recurring dream, a dream that someone repeatedly experiences over an extended period
In television:
- Recurring character, a character, usually on a television series, that appears from time to time and may grow into a larger role
- Recurring status, condition whereby a soap opera actor may be used for extended period without being under contract
Famous quotes containing the word recurring:
“Let us think this thought in its most terrible form: existence as it is, without meaning or aim, and yet recurring inevitably, without a finale in nothingness—”eternal recurrence.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“America is the world’s living myth. There’s no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We’re here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)