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verb
adj
noun
- Alternative form of coo-coo (Barbadian food).
- The sound of that particular bird.
- A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
- The cuckoo clock itself.
- The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
- Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae within the order Cuculiformes, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.
- (slang) Someone who is crazy.
- any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail
- a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
adj
- continually repeated over a period of time
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- measured lengthwise
- executed or initiated by running
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- of advancing the ball by running
- (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- (medicine) Discharging pus.
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
- (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
- Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
- (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
- Present, current.
noun
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- the state of being in operation
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the act of administering or being in charge of something
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
- The action of the verb to run.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- (physics) The dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at which it is probed due to higher-order interaction terms and associated renormalization issues becoming relevant; metaphorically, the "running" of the measurement from its limiting macroscopic value.
- (colloquial) The act of running errands.
adv
prep
verb
noun
- An iteration; a repetition.
- A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
- (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
- (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
- (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
- an event that repeats
verb
- (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
- (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
- (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
- (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
- (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
- (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
- to say again or imitate
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- happen or occur again
- make or do or perform again
- to say, state, or perform again
- do over
adj
noun
verb
adj
- repetitive and persistent
- demanding attention
- Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
- (ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.
- Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
adj
- Insistently repetitive.
- continually recurring to the mind
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- stubbornly unyielding
- never-ceasing
- retained; not shed
prefix
adj
- recurring again and again
- Appearing or recurring again and again; recurrent.
- lasting three seasons or more
- lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal
- Continuing without cessation or intermission for several years, or for an undetermined or infinite period; never-ending or never failing; perpetual, unceasing.
- (botany) Of a plant: active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.
- (rare) Appearing again each year; annual.
- Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, for multiple years, or all the time.
noun
adj
- Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
- (computing, complexity theory) Bounded above by a constant.
- Firm; solid; not fluid.
- Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
- Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
- unvarying in nature
- uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
- steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection
noun
- That which is permanent or invariable.
- (sciences) Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.
- (computing) An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.
- (algebra) A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion or operation.
- a quantity that does not vary
- a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context
noun
- The act of recurring.
- (programming) The invocation of a procedure from within itself.
- (mathematics) The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
- (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation; also, the repeated application or execution of a pattern, function or definition; an expression that is recursive
noun
- the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof)
- repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
- the syllable added in a reduplicated word form
- a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)
- (linguistics) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
- (anatomy) The folding or doubling of a part or organ.
verb
adj
noun
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
- a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
- something additional of the same kind
noun
- repetition of an act needlessly
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
- (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- The state of being redundant.
verb
noun
- a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
- usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
- (aviation, slang) A transponder.
- (figurative) A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others.
- A kind of bird, many species of which are colorful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
prep_phrase
noun
- useless and pointless repetition
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
- (uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
- (countable, logic, propositional logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
- (countable, logic, first-order logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
- (countable) An expression that features tautology.
verb
- (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.
- (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
- To dash; to throw violently.
- (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
- (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
- (transitive) To hit or strike.
- (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- (Scotland, of rain) To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
- go ‘ding dong’, like a bell
noun
- (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
- (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
- The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
- (colloquial) A rejection.
- (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
- a ringing sound
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
noun
- a regular rate of repetition
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
adj
verb
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
adj
- Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
- Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
- Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.
- Continuing for a long period; eternal.
- (philosophy) Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).
- Having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.
- Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
- Of a plant or plant part: synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- continuing forever or indefinitely
noun
- (countable, botany) Chiefly with a descriptive word: short for everlasting flower (“any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant”)
- Synonym of lasting (“(uncountable) a durable, plain, woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes; (countable) a quantity of such fabric”).
- any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
verb
- (transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
- (transitive) To narrate; to relate; to tell; to recount.
- (ambitransitive) To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater.
- To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency.
- (transitive, theater) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
noun
- An iteration; a repetition.
- A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
- (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
- (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
- (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
- an event that repeats
verb
- (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
- (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
- (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
- (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
- (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
- (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
- to say again or imitate
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- happen or occur again
- make or do or perform again
- to say, state, or perform again
- do over
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The act of recurring.
- (programming) The invocation of a procedure from within itself.
- (mathematics) The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
- (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation; also, the repeated application or execution of a pattern, function or definition; an expression that is recursive
noun
- the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof)
- repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
- the syllable added in a reduplicated word form
- a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)
- (linguistics) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
- (anatomy) The folding or doubling of a part or organ.
noun
- repetition of an act needlessly
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
- (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- The state of being redundant.
noun
- useless and pointless repetition
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
- (uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
- (countable, logic, propositional logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
- (countable, logic, first-order logic) A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
- (countable) An expression that features tautology.
noun
- a regular rate of repetition
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
adj
verb
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
verb
adj
noun
- Alternative form of coo-coo (Barbadian food).
- The sound of that particular bird.
- A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
- The cuckoo clock itself.
- The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
- Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae within the order Cuculiformes, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.
- (slang) Someone who is crazy.
- any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail
- a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
verb
adj
noun
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
- a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
- something additional of the same kind
verb
noun
- a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
- usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
- (aviation, slang) A transponder.
- (figurative) A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others.
- A kind of bird, many species of which are colorful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
verb
- (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.
- (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
- To dash; to throw violently.
- (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
- (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
- (transitive) To hit or strike.
- (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- (Scotland, of rain) To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
- go ‘ding dong’, like a bell
noun
- (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
- (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
- The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
- (colloquial) A rejection.
- (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
- a ringing sound
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- (transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
- (transitive) To narrate; to relate; to tell; to recount.
- (ambitransitive) To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater.
- To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency.
- (transitive, theater) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
adj
- continually repeated over a period of time
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- measured lengthwise
- executed or initiated by running
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- of advancing the ball by running
- (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- (medicine) Discharging pus.
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
- (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
- Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
- (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
- Present, current.
noun
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- the state of being in operation
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the act of administering or being in charge of something
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
- The action of the verb to run.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- (physics) The dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at which it is probed due to higher-order interaction terms and associated renormalization issues becoming relevant; metaphorically, the "running" of the measurement from its limiting macroscopic value.
- (colloquial) The act of running errands.
adv
prep
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- repetitive and persistent
- demanding attention
- Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
- (ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.
- Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
adj
- Insistently repetitive.
- continually recurring to the mind
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- stubbornly unyielding
- never-ceasing
- retained; not shed
adj
- recurring again and again
- Appearing or recurring again and again; recurrent.
- lasting three seasons or more
- lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal
- Continuing without cessation or intermission for several years, or for an undetermined or infinite period; never-ending or never failing; perpetual, unceasing.
- (botany) Of a plant: active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.
- (rare) Appearing again each year; annual.
- Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, for multiple years, or all the time.
noun
adj
- Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
- (computing, complexity theory) Bounded above by a constant.
- Firm; solid; not fluid.
- Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
- Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
- unvarying in nature
- uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
- steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection
noun
- That which is permanent or invariable.
- (sciences) Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.
- (computing) An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.
- (algebra) A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion or operation.
- a quantity that does not vary
- a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context
adj
- Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
- Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
- Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.
- Continuing for a long period; eternal.
- (philosophy) Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).
- Having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.
- Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
- Of a plant or plant part: synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- continuing forever or indefinitely
noun
- (countable, botany) Chiefly with a descriptive word: short for everlasting flower (“any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant”)
- Synonym of lasting (“(uncountable) a durable, plain, woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes; (countable) a quantity of such fabric”).
- any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color