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RECENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Approximately the last 10,000 years
Synonyms:
Holocene; Holocene epoch; Recent; Recent epoch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
epoch (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)
Holonyms ("Recent" is a part of...):
Age of Man; Quaternary; Quaternary period (last 2 million years)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
New
Example:
recent buds on the apple trees
Classified under:
Similar:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Derivation:
recency; recentness (the property of having happened or appeared not long ago)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
Example:
a recent issue of the journal
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)
Derivation:
recency (the property of having happened or appeared not long ago)
recentness (a time immediately before the present)
Context examples:
The recent findings are based on an analysis of data taken by 50 research cruises that gathered more than 100,000 water samples.
(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)
My father’s health was deeply shaken by the horror of the recent events.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS): recent evidence and development of a shorter version.
(Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
He smelled it and found it so recent that he crouched swiftly, and looked in the direction in which it disappeared.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The seamen did not speak kindly then of their recent enemies.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The mosquito-borne illness killed over 400,000 in 2015, according the most recent statistics from the World Health Organization.
(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)
The loss may be temporary or permanent, and may involve old or recent memories.
(Amnesia, NCI Thesaurus)
The timing of the most recent sighting of an individual when that individual was alive.
(Last Time Seen Alive, NCI Thesaurus)
The substitution of missing data with the most recent data collected that is not missing.
(Last Observation Carried Forward Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)
Recent evidence suggests derivation from a plasmacytoid monocyte.
(Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
