| Main Entry: | recurrence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repeated happening |
Synonyms: |
frequency, habituation, intermittence, reappearance, regularity, reoccurrence, repetition, repetitiveness, return |
| Main Entry: | recurrence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | anniversary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yearly observance, celebration |
Synonyms: |
ceremony, commemoration, feast day, festival, holiday, jubilee, recurrence, red-letter day |
| Main Entry: | duplicate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | copy, reproduction |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, analogue, carbon, carbon copy, chip off the old block, clone, companion, coordinate, copycat, correlate, counterfeit, counterpart, counterscript, dead ringer, ditto*, double, dupe*, duplication, facsimile, fake, fellow, germination, imitation, knockoff, likeness, lookalike, match, mate, obverse, parallel, phony, photocopy, photostat, pirate, reciprocal, recurrence, repetition, replica, replication, repro, ringer, second, similarity, spitting image, stat, twin |
| Notes: | duplication may be regarded as an activity because one duplicates (makes again) something, but replication is a process in which something is replicated (copied) |
Antonyms: |
archetype, model, original, prototype |
| Main Entry: | frequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commonness, repetitiveness |
Synonyms: |
abundance, beat, constancy, density, frequentness, iteration, number, oscillation, periodicity, persistence, prevalence, pulsation, recurrence, regularity, reiteration, repetition, rhythm |
Antonyms: |
infrequency, irregularity, uncommonness |
| Main Entry: | recognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | identification, acknowledgment |
Synonyms: |
acceptance, acknowledging, admission, allowance, apperception, appreciation, apprehending, assimilation, avowal, awareness, cognizance, concession, confession, consciousness, detection, discovery, double take, high sign, identifying, memory, notice, noticing, perceiving, perception, realization, recall, recalling, recognizance, recollection, recurrence, remembering, remembrance, respect, salute, sensibility, tumble*, understanding, verifying |
Antonyms: |
forgetfulness, ignorance |
| Main Entry: | relapse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration, weakening |
Synonyms: |
backsliding, fall, fall from grace, lapse, loss, recidivism, recurrence, regression, repetition, retrogression, return, reversion, setback, turn for the worse, worsening |
Antonyms: |
healing, progress, strengthening |
| Main Entry: | repetition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplication; doing again |
Synonyms: |
alliteration, broken record, chant, chorus, copy, echo, encore, ingemination, iteracy, iterance, iteration, litany, paraphrase, periodicity, perseveration, practice, reappearance, recapitulation, recital, recurrence, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, reoccurrence, repeat, repetitiousness, replication, report, reproduction, restatement, return, rhythm, rote, staccato, tautology |
Antonyms: |
instance |
| Main Entry: | return |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming again |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, answer, appearance, arrival, coming, entrance, entry, homecoming, occurrence, reaction, reappearance, rebound, recoil, recoiling, recompense, recompensing, recovery, recrudescence, recurrence, reestablishment, reinstatement, rejoinder, reoccurrence, replacement, repossession, restitution, restoration, restoring, retreat, reversion, revisitation |
Antonyms: |
departure, leave |
| Main Entry: | multiplication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplication |
Synonyms: |
addition, amplification, augmentation, augmenting, compounding, increase, manifolding, procreation, recurrence, reduplication, reduplification, repeating, repetition, reproducing, reproduction |
Antonyms: |
decrease, reduction, subtraction |