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# recurring

«recurring» in Mova's school dictionary: **Happening again and again** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (recurring); verb (present participle of recur: recur, recurs, recurred, recurring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Happening again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/#m1)

2) (maths, UK) A decimal where a digit or group of digits repeats forever, like 0.333… [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, UK pupils say «nought point three recurring» for 0.333…, shown with a dot over the digit; US pupils say repeating decimal. One third = 0.3 recurring; two thirds = 0.6 recurring. In stories and health a recurring dream or pain keeps coming back. Phrases: recurring decimal, recurring dream, recurring problem.

### examples

- One third as a decimal is 0.3 recurring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/#x1)
- I have a recurring dream about flying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/#x2)
- Leaks are a recurring problem in our old house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/#x3)
- The recurring character appears in every book of the series. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/#x4)
- 1 ÷ 11 gives 0.09 recurring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/#x5)
- Headaches can be a recurring problem for some people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/#x6)
- Life in the Golden Age was one unceasing round of ever-recurring pleasures unmarred by sorrow or care. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/#x7)

### note

Double r: recurring, recurred. Recurring decimals never end, but they can be written exactly as fractions. In US books the same idea is called a repeating decimal.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recurring» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recurring/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.