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starlet (iou) and recur (medicine)


starlet (iou)



starlet noun. M19.
[from STAR noun1 + -LET.]
A small star. Chiefly poet. M19.
fig.: J. S. Blackie Yellow starlet that peeps out from a grassy carpet in the spring.
A small short-armed starfish of the genus Asterina. M19.
A promising young performer in the world of Entertainment or sport, esp. a young and glamorous actress. E20.
M. Kramer Good proportions are as self-evident in a Wine as..in a Hollywood starlet.

recur (medicine)


recur


1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. "When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard." (I. Watts)

2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.

3. To resort; to have recourse; to go for help. "If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the "punctum stans" of the schools, they will thereby very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration.

<mathematics>" (Locke) Recurring decimal, an algebraic series in which the coefficients of the several terms can be expressed by means of certain preceding coefficients and constants in one uniform manner.

Origin: L. Recurrere; pref.re- re- + currere to run. See Current.

Source: Websters Dictionary