cyclical
Use Cyclical in a sentence
klɪ adjective
1.
2.
of or denoting a business or stock whose income, value, or earnings fluctuate widely according to variations in the economy or the cycle of the seasons: Selling Christmas decorations is a cyclical business.
noun
3.
Usually, cyclicals. stocks of cyclical companies.
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| characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: |
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cyclic or cyclical (ˈsaɪklɪk, ˈsɪklɪk, ˈsaɪklɪkəl, ˈsɪklɪkəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | recurring or revolving in cycles |
| 2. | heterocyclic See also homocyclic (of an organic compound) containing a closed saturated or unsaturated ring of atoms |
| 3. | botany |
| a. arranged in whorls: cyclic petals | |
| b. having parts arranged in this way: cyclic flowers | |
| 4. | music of or relating to a musical form consisting of several movements sharing thematic material |
| 5. | geometry (of a polygon) having vertices that lie on a circle |
| 6. | (in generative grammar) denoting one of a set of transformational rules all of which must apply to a clause before any one of them applies to any clause in which the first clause is embedded |
| cyclical or cyclical | |
| —adj | |
| 'cyclically or cyclical | |
| —adv | |
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Example sentences
It is early days, but the commission thinks that such cyclical convergence is slowly happening.
First, the media is biased toward covering cyclical and unexpected change, at the expense of steady and expected change.
Probably, though, the pick-up in growth is mainly cyclical.
No, say the structural pessimists who are now as numerous as the cyclical optimists.
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