recent

Having happened a short while ago.

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.

Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.

Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.

The cause has several hundred recent donors.

I met three recent graduates at the conference.

Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.

Finding it now means it was produced in more recent times, in astronomical terms.

A recently viewed or accessed item.

Obviously, the first time you launch this app, your Recents list is empty.

The Holocene.

He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never accepted. The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible.