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noun
1.
the act or sport of riding or traveling by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
2.
Also called bicycle race, bicycle racing. Sports. a race on lightweight bicycles with low handlebars, conducted for specified distances or against time on a dirt or board track or over public roads between cities.
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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.
6.
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.
7.
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)
Idiom9.
10.
to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.
11.
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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| cycle (ˈsaɪkəl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a recurring period of time in which certain events or phenomena occur and reach completion or repeat themselves in a regular sequence |
| 2. | a completed series of events that follows or is followed by another series of similar events occurring in the same sequence |
| 3. | the time taken or needed for one such series |
| 4. | a vast period of time; age; aeon |
| 5. | a group of poems or prose narratives forming a continuous story about a central figure or event: the Arthurian cycle |
| 6. | a series of miracle plays: the Chester cycle |
| 7. | See song cycle a group or sequence of songs |
| 8. | bicycle tricycle short for motorcycle |
| 9. | astronomy the orbit of a celestial body |
| 10. | a recurrent series of events or processes in plants and animals: a life cycle; a growth cycle; a metabolic cycle |
| 11. | physics a continuous change or a sequence of changes in the state of a system that leads to the restoration of the system to its original state after a finite period of time |
| 12. | one of a series of repeated changes in the magnitude of a periodically varying quantity, such as current or voltage |
| 13. | computing |
| a. a set of operations that can be both treated and repeated as a unit | |
| b. the time required to complete a set of operations | |
| c. one oscillation of the regular voltage waveform used to synchronize processes in a digital computer | |
| 14. | (in generative grammar) the set of cyclic rules |
| —vb | |
| 15. | (tr) to process through a cycle or system |
| 16. | (intr) to move in or pass through cycles |
| 17. | to travel by or ride a bicycle or tricycle |
| [C14: from Late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos cycle, circle, ring, wheel; see | |
| 'cycling | |
| —n, —adj | |
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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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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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