| PRECURING | • precuring v. Present participle of precure. • PRECURE v. to cure beforehand. |
| PRECURRER | • precurrer n. Obsolete form of precursor. • PRECURRER n. (Shakespeare) a precursor, also PRECURSOR. |
| PRECURSED | • precursed v. Simple past tense and past participle of precurse. • PRECURSE v. to foreshadow or be a precursor of, to herald. |
| PRECURSES | • precurses v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of precurse. • PRECURSE v. to foreshadow or be a precursor of, to herald. |
| PRECURSOR | • precursor n. That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events. • precursor n. (Chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound. • precursor adj. (Telecommunications, of intersymbol interference) Caused by the following symbol. |
| RECUILING | • RECUILE v. (Spenser) to recoil, also RECOYLE, RECULE, REQUOYLE. |
| RECUMBENT | • recumbent adj. Lying down. • recumbent adj. Inactive; idle. • recumbent n. A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture. |
| RECURRENT | • recurrent adj. Recurring; happening time after time. • recurrent adj. (Mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) Non-transient. • recurrent adj. (Anatomy) Running back toward its origin. |
| RECURRING | • recurring v. Present participle of recur. • recurring adj. Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition. • recurring adj. (Mathematics) Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely. |
| RECURSION | • recursion n. The act of recurring. • recursion n. (Mathematics) The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself. • recursion n. (Programming) The invocation of a procedure from within itself. |
| RECURSIVE | • recursive adj. Drawing upon itself, referring back. • recursive adj. (Mathematics, not comparable) of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula… • recursive adj. (Computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself. |
| RECURVATE | • recurvate v. To bend or curve back; to recurve. • recurvate adj. (Botany) recurved. • RECURVATE adj. bent back. |
| RECURVING | • recurving v. Present participle of recurve. • recurving n. A curving again, or back on itself; a meander. • RECURVE v. to bend back. |
| RECUSANCE | • recusance n. Alternative form of recusancy. • RECUSANCE n. the state of being recusant, one who refuses to attend Catholic church services, also RECUSANCY. |
| RECUSANCY | • recusancy n. Obstinate refusal or opposition. • recusancy n. The state of being a recusant; nonconformity. • RECUSANCY n. the state of being recusant, one who refuses to attend Catholic church services, also RECUSANCE. |
| RECUSANTS | • recusants n. Plural of recusant. • RECUSANT n. one who refuses to accept established authority. |
| RECUTTING | • recutting v. Present participle of recut. • recutting n. The process or result of cutting again. • RECUT v. to cut again. |