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recent meaning

EN[ˈɹiːsənt]
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FR récent

    Definition of recent in English Dictionary

  • AdjectiveCOMmore recentSUPmost recentPREré-SUF-ent
    1. Having happened a short while ago.
      1. Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
    2. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
      1. Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
        1. The cause has several hundred recent donors.
        2. I met three recent graduates at the conference.
      2. In long-view scientific usage, particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy, may refer to events not "recent" in everyday usage, thousands or even millions of years ago.
        1. In geology and and astronomy, "Recent", capitalised, has often been used as an exact synonym for "Holocene", particularly pre-21st century.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • A recent work addressed PET/MRI protocols for liver imaging using a trimodality system (PET/CT and MRI with a shuttle table enabling accurate PET-MRI fusion results)[13 ].
            • A recent high-throughput screen identified various compounds such as PI3K or BCL2 inhibitors that can be combined favorably with ibrutinib.
            • This pattern (i.e., old origin and more recent diversification) suggests a scenario of replacement in carnivory among polyneopterous insects.
          2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
            • Recent advances in surgical resection and combination therapy have significantly improved the 5 year survival for a subset of patients with oligometastatic disease.
            • Recent publications even state that they can differentiate into nonmesodermal cells such as hepatocytes, neurons, or astrocytes.
            • Recent studies have also shown that biodigestibility recalcitrance is closely related to saccharification recalcitrance.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Adjectives
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          1. en recently
          2. fr recentré
          3. en recenter
          4. fr recentra
          5. en recentre
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