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noun
1.
any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
2.
a round of years or a recurring period of time, especially one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.
3.
any long period of years; age.
4.
a bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
5.
EXPANDa group of poems, dramas, prose narratives, songs etc., about a central theme, figure, or the like: the Arthurian cycle.
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Physics.
a.
a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a final state identical to the original one.
b.
one of a succession of periodically recurring events.
c.
a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and minimum value, returning to a final value equal to the original one.
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Mathematics. a permutation of a set of elements that leaves the original cyclic order of the elements unchanged.
8.
COLLAPSEComputers.
a.
the smallest interval of time required to complete an operation in a computer.
b.
a series of computer operations repeated as a unit.
verb (used without object)
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to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.
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Cycled
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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hit for the cycle, Baseball. (of one player) to hit a single, double, triple, and home run in one game.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English cicle < Late Latin cyclus < Greek kýklos cycle, circle, wheel, ring, disk, orb; see wheel
1350–1400; Middle English cicle < Late Latin cyclus < Greek kýklos cycle, circle, wheel, ring, disk, orb; see wheel
Related forms
su·per·cy·cle, noun
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Word Origin & History
cycle
late 14c., from L.L. cyclus, from Gk. kyklos "circle, wheel," from PIE *kwel-, *kwol- "to roll, to move around, wheel" (cf. Skt. cakram "circle, wheel," carati "he moves, wanders;" Avestan caraiti "applies himself," c'axra "chariot, wagon;" Gk. polos "a round axis" (PIE *kw- becomes Gk. p- before some
EXPANDvowels), polein "move around;" L. colere "to frequent, dwell in, to cultivate, move around," cultus "tended, cultivated," hence also "polished," colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler, colonist;" Lith. kelias "a road, a way;" O.N. hvel, O.E. hweol "wheel;" O.Rus., Pol. kolo, Rus. koleso "a wheel"). The verb meaning "to ride a bicycle" is from 1883.
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Medical Dictionary
cycle cy·cle (sī'kəl)
n.
An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs.
A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon.
A periodically repeated sequence of events.
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