recuring

Recuring is not a standard English word. It does not appear in major dictionaries and is generally regarded as a misspelling or a nonce term. In published texts, it is most often a mistaken form of recurring or curing, or a coined term that lacks widespread usage.

Possible interpretations include: If the intended meaning is “happening again,” the standard forms are recurring (adjective) or recurrence (noun); for example, a recurring event, or a recurrence of symptoms. If the intended meaning is the process of hardening, preserving, or curing a material, the correct term is curing, or in a biomedical context, treatment or healing; if someone writes “re-curing” to describe performing a curing process again, it should be defined clearly and is not widely accepted.

Guidance: In formal writing, use recurring or recurrence for repetition; use curing for the hardening or preserving process. If you encounter “recuring” in a technical document, check the surrounding context; it may be a typographical error or a nonstandard coinage, in which case you should replace it with one of the standard forms or provide a definition.

Notes on origin: The form likely arises from combining the prefix re- with either curing or recurring, but it has not earned independent acceptance in general usage. See also: recurring, recurrence, curing, recurrence relation.