Cyclic

Definition: Cyclic

Cyclic

Adjective

1. (thermodynamics) conforming to the Carnot cycle.

2. Botany; forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl; "cyclic petals"; "cyclic flowers".

3. Chemistry; having atoms arranged in a ring structure.

4. Recurring in cycles.

5. Marked by repeated cycles.

Date "cyclic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	Of or pertaining to a cycle or cycles. (references)
Health	Pertaining to or occurring in a cycle or cycles; the term is applied to chemical compounds that contain a ring of atoms in the nucleus. (references)
Medicine	Having the characteristics of a cycle. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Adj. of cycle; recurrent rather than secular. (references)
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Synonym: Cyclic

Synonym: cyclical (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: acyclic (adj), noncyclic (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome (reference) The World Market for Cyclic Hydrocarbons: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Aharonov-Bohm and Other Cyclic Phenomena (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, Vol 139) (reference) Cyclic Gmp: Synthesis, Metabolism, and Function (reference) Cyclic Homology (2nd Ed)(Grundlehren Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, 301) (reference) Cyclic Nucleotides & Therapeutic Perspectives (reference) Erotic Cyclic Forecast : Psychological Prediction Formula (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Martha Vaughan's lecture on regulation of cyclic nucleotide]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Author	Quotation
Percy Bysshe Shelley	History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Cyclic changes in the heart rate during breathing. (references)
		This cyclic schedule often causes regular monthly bleeding like a light menstrual period. (references)
		There are two methods for taking postmenopausal hormones� cyclic (or sequential) and continuous combined. (references)
Economic History	Zimbabwe	Nevertheless, a few in the industry see the current times as an opportunity to position themselves for the cyclic rebound that may occur. (references)
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"Cyclic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cyclic" is used about 282 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	282	17,376

Expressions using "cyclic": 8-Bromo Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate ♦ Cyclic AMP ♦ Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein ♦ Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases ♦ cyclic array ♦ cyclic check ♦ Cyclic chorus ♦ Cyclic CMP ♦ cyclic code ♦ cyclic disorder ♦ cyclic GMP ♦ Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases ♦ cyclic guanosine monophosphate ♦ Cyclic IMP ♦ cyclic load ♦ Cyclic Mastalgia ♦ Cyclic Mastitis ♦ cyclic neutropenia ♦ cyclic noise ♦ Cyclic Nucleotide-Regulated Protein Kinases ♦ cyclic order ♦ cyclic pith control ♦ Cyclic poets ♦ cyclic rate of fire ♦ cyclic redundancy check ♦ cyclic redundancy code ♦ cyclic storage ♦ cyclic store ♦ cyclic stress ♦ cyclic time ♦ Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome ♦ Dibutyryl Cyclic GMP ♦ John's cyclic incomplete block designs ♦ permuted cyclic code ♦ preventive cyclic retransmission. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "cyclic": cyclic-amp, cyclic-amp-regulated.
	Ending with "cyclic": non-cyclic.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cyclic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ciklik. (various references)

Arabic		‏دوري (periodic, periodical, recurrent, recurring, repeating). (various references)

Bulgarian		цикличен (periodic). (various references)

Chinese		循环 (Circulation, Circulatory, Cycled, Cycling). (various references)

Czech		cyklický. (various references)

Danish		cyklisk. (various references)

Dutch		cyclisch (cyclical). (various references)

Farsi		دوره ای یادایره ای . (various references)

Finnish		syklinen (cyclical). (various references)

French		cyclique (cyclical). (various references)

German		zyklisch (circadian, cyclical). (various references)

Greek		Κυκλικός, κυκλικόσ (circular, cyclical, orbed, round), κυκλικός (circular). (various references)

Hebrew		מע�'לי (circular), מחזורי (circulating, periodic, recurring, rotary). (various references)

Hungarian		ciklikus (cyclical). (various references)

Italian		ciclico (cyclical). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		繰�"し (cycle, repeat, repeated), サーボ機構 (cermet, cum, cycasin, cycle, cycling, cycling course, cyclist, psi, psychics, salmon, salmon pink, science, science fiction, scientific, scientist, scientology, Searle, semen, servomechanism, sialon, sirloin, sirloin steak, sperm, thermal printer, thermistor, thermoconcrete, thermoelement, thermometer, thermostat, thiabendazole), 周期性 (periodic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くりかえし (cycle, reiteration, repeat, repeated, repetition, repetition of kanji), しゅうきせい (periodic), サイクリック . (various references)

Korean		주기 (cycle). (various references)

Manx		chymshallagh (cyclical), kiarklagh (circulatory, cyclical, rotund), fainnagh (circinate, cyclical). (various references)

Pig Latin		ycliccay

Portuguese		cíclico. (various references)

Romanian		ciclic (cyclical, cyclically, periodic). (various references)

Russian		циклический (circular, cyclical, end-around, periodic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		cikličan. (various references)

Spanish		cíclico (cyclical). (various references)

Swedish		cyklisk, cirklande, kretsande (gyration, gyratory). (various references)

Turkish		periyodik (cyclical, periodic, periodical), konjonktürel (cyclical), kahramanlık hikâyeleriyle ilgili (cyclical), halkalı (annulate, annulated, cyclical, ringed, segmented), efsanevi (cyclical, fabled, larger than life, legendary, mythic, mythical), dolaşımı sağlayan (circulatory, cyclical), devirli (cyclical, periodic, periodical, recurrent, recurring). (various references)

Ukrainian		циклічний (cyclical, periodic). (various references)

Vietnamese		tuần ho� n (circulating decimal, cyclical), theo chu kỳ (cyclical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cyclic": cyclical, cyclicalities, cyclicality, cyclically, cyclicals, cyclicities, cyclicity, cyclicly. (additional references)
	Words ending with "cyclic": acyclic, alicyclic, bicyclic, carbocyclic, dicyclic, encyclic, epicyclic, exocyclic, heterocyclic, isocyclic, macrocyclic, monocyclic, noncyclic, pericyclic, polycyclic, tricyclic. (additional references)
	Words containing "cyclic": countercyclical, countercyclically, encyclical, encyclicals, encyclics, heterocyclics, noncyclical, tricyclics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cyclic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cicil, Cicli, ciclid, Cieplak, cycil, cycl, Cyclax, cyclics, cyclin, cyclism, Cyclisme, cyclo, cyctic, cyelic, cylic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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	Words within the letters "c-c-c-i-l-y"
	-3 letters: icy.
	-4 letters: li.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-c-i-l-y"
	+1 letter: acyclic.
	+2 letters: bicyclic, cyclical, cyclicly, cyclonic, dicyclic, encyclic.
	+3 letters: alicyclic, cyclicals, cyclicity, encyclics, epicyclic, exocyclic, isocyclic, noncyclic, tricyclic.
	+4 letters: complicacy, cyclically, cyclopedic, cycloramic, cyclotomic, encyclical, monocyclic, pericyclic, polycyclic, succinctly, tricyclics.
	+5 letters: carbocyclic, cataclysmic, cyclazocine, cyclicality, cyclicities, cyclothymic, encyclicals, macrocyclic, noncyclical.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cyclic redundancy check	85	cyclic esotropia	3
check cyclic data error redundancy	40	code cyclic redundancy	3
cyclic vomiting syndrome	37	cd cyclic error redundancy security	3
cyclic neutropenia	21	cyclic loading	3
cyclic vomiting	18	cabinet corrosion cyclic	3
cyclic error redundancy	14	cyclic non photophosphorylation	3
check cyclic error redundancy	13	cyclic plastic testing	2
cyclic redundancy	13	acetal cyclic ketal	2
amp cyclic	13	cd cyclic error fix redundancy	2
cyclic	12	cd cyclic download error fix redundancy utility	2
cyclic voltammetry	10	cyclic syndrome vomitting	2
cyclic gmp	5	azulene cyclic voltammetry	2
cyclic vomitting	5	check cyclic redundancy window xp	2
cyclic edema idiopathic	5	cyclic vulvovaginitis	2
check cyclic redundancy sum	4	biologic cyclic de la rangel trypanosome	2
cyclic voltametry	4	check crc16 cyclic redundancy	2
check cyclic fix redundancy	4	check cyclic redundacy	2
cyclic diet ketogenic	4	cyclic error redundency	2
cause cyclic pain	4	acetal cyclic	2
check cyclic redundency	3
		acetal cyclic	2
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Cyclic

Definition: Cyclic

Cyclic

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Specialty Definition: Cyclic

Synonym: Cyclic

Crosswords: Cyclic

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Usage Frequency: Cyclic

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