Crossword clues for cyclic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cyclic \Cyc"lic\ (s?k"l?k or s?"kl?k), Cyclical \Cyc"lic*al\ (s?k"l?-kal), a. [Cf. F. cycluque, Gr. kykliko`s, fr. ky`klos See Cycle.]
Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
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(Chemistry) Having atoms bonded to form a ring structure. Opposite of acyclic.
Note: Used most commonly in respect to organic compounds.
Note: [Narrower terms: bicyclic; heterocyclic; homocyclic, isocyclic]
Syn: closed-chain, closed-ring.
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Recurring in cycles[2]; having a pattern that repeats at approximately equal intervals; periodic. Opposite of noncyclic.
Note: [Narrower terms: alternate(prenominal), alternating(prenominal); alternate(prenominal), every other(prenominal), every second(prenominal); alternating(prenominal), oscillating(prenominal); biyearly; circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity); circular; daily, diurnal; fortnightly, biweekly; hourly; midweek, midweekly; seasonal; semestral, semestrial; semiannual, biannual, biyearly; semiweekly, biweekly; weekly; annual, yearly; biennial; bimonthly, bimestrial; half-hourly; half-yearly; monthly; tertian, alternate(prenominal); triennial]
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Marked by repeated cycles[2].
Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.
Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject.
--Milman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from French cyclique (16c.), from Latin cyclicus, from Greek kyklikos "moving in a circle," from kyklos (see cycle (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals. 2 (context chemistry of a compound English) Having chains of atoms arranged in a ring. 3 (context botany English) Having parts arranged in a whorl. 4 (context mathematics of a group English) Being generated by only one element. 5 (context geometry of a polygon English) Able to be inscribed in a circle.
WordNet
Wikipedia
There are many terms in mathematics that begin with cyclic:
- Cyclic chain rule, for derivatives, used in thermodynamics
- Cyclic code, linear codes closed under cyclic permutations
- Cyclic convolution, a method of combining periodic functions
- Cycle decomposition (graph theory)
- Cycle decomposition (group theory)
- Cyclic extension, a field extension with cyclic Galois group
- Graph theory:
- Cycle graph, a connected, 2-regular graph
- Cycle graph (algebra), a diagram representing the cycles determined by taking powers of group elements
- Circulant graph, a graph with cyclic symmetry
- Cycle (graph theory), a nontrivial path in some graph from a node to itself
- Cyclic graph, a graph containing at least one graph cycle
- Cyclic group, a group generated by a single element
- Cyclic homology, an approximation of K-theory used in non-commutative differential geometry
- Cyclic module, a module generated by a single element
- Cyclic notation, a way of writing permutations
- Cyclic number, a number such that cyclic permutations of the digits are successive multiples of the number
- Cyclic order, a binary relation for doubly linked lists
- Cyclic permutation, a permutation with one nontrivial orbit
- Cyclic polygon, a polygon which can be given a circumscribed circle
- Cyclic shift, also known as circular shift
- Cyclic symmetry, n-fold rotational symmetry of 3-dimensional space
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.