Like sine waves

Usage examples of cyclic.

Every original language near to its source is in itself the chaos of a cyclic poem: the copiousness of lexicography and the distinctions of grammar are the works of a later age, and are merely the catalogue and the form of the creations of poetry.

The First Eldership War of a thousand cyclics ago had been sparked by that reluctance: the common Zhirrzh demanding the same right to this postponement of death that their clan and family leaders were already enjoying.

A reductase activity by insulin, glucagon, cyclic AMP and hydrocortisone.

Eldership only a cyclic ago, the result of a drudokyi attack elsewhere on Gree, and she was still coming to grips with these new limitations that had been imposed on her.

The heli plunged downwards as I pushed the cyclic forward a touch too far.

Jeff checked below and then talked me down, metre by metre, as I slowly lowered the collective, adjusting the cyclic to trim the heli as it descended.

I eased the cyclic forward and the valley walls rose around us as the heli began to descend.

I jinked the heli right and left, then pushed the cyclic forward again, forcing the collective against the stops, racing to put the ridgeline between us and our attackers.

I eased the cyclic forward, dropping the nose of the heli, as I saw the compound begin to open up ahead of us.

Then the time coordinate becomes cyclic, as in Hindu mythology, where Brahma recreates the universe every kalpa, a period of 4.

It springs, instantly, from a superficial observation of the cyclic and seemingly gyrating or vorticial movements of those individual portions of the Universe which come most immediately and most closely under our observation.

Being, on the contrary, always suggested, as I say, by the vorticial movements about centres, a reason for it, also--a cause for the ingathering of all the orbs into one, imagined to be already existing--was naturally sought in the same direction, among these cyclic movements themselves.

They bombarded uranium with slow neutrons and split it up into masurium, barium, gamma rays and more neutrons, thus establishing a cyclic process.

Conscientious but morose, I went about my studies, strode dismally through the rectilinear suburban streets to the Kleinhammer-Weg, visited Gretchen Scheffler, who told me about Strength through Joy trips to the land of the midnight sun, while I went right on comparing Goethe with Rasputin or, when I had enough of the cyclic and endless alternation of dark and radiant, took refuge in historical studies.

So astonished were the ancients to observe this phenomenon, that Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love.