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Periodically

Periodically \Pe`ri*od"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a periodical manner.

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periodically

adv. 1 In a regular periodic manner 2 intermittently

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periodically

adv. in a sporadic manner; "he only works sporadically" [syn: sporadically]

Usage examples of "periodically".

Fenellan eyed benevolently the worthy attorney, whose innermost imp burst out periodically, like a Dutch clocksentry, to trot on his own small grounds for thinking himself of the community of the man of the world.

He might periodically share a bed with Marcie, but he would sleep in another room.

Or are we basically a society of serial monogamists with a fundamental need to refresh our love lives periodically?

Spirit and apply our souls to acquiring the perfection we were instructed to attain, we can periodically glimpse the outworking of the Spirit in our daily lives.

As the pulvinus is so indistinct at first, the movement probably does not then depend on the expansion of its cells, but on periodically unequal growth in the petiole.

Vertebrate hosts serve as reservoirs which periodically reinoculate the nanobe into the external environment, increasing the chance of self-sustaining outbreaks.

He reinspected the trail periodically, but it retained a coarse, stony texture.

I spent a few hours walking in the rain, and periodically I stopped at one trailer or another, participated in one shivah or another, and at each place I picked up another bit of news.

The men were tossing an enormous sponge ball of some sort around in the pool and periodically it landed somewhere, shoreside, sending water splashing two feet in circumference, causing squeals of surprised delight.

Periodically he danced along with his drumming, stomping for emphasis between drumbeats.

But, thanks to the water, plate tectonics operated, and much of the carbon dioxide was kept locked up in the carbonate rocks, which were periodically subducted into the mantle, just as on Earth.

Periodically they passed columns of rock which had been left unblasted and which served as buttresses for the layers of rock between the tunnel and the surface.

Rather, they have sat around like pieces of furniture, perhaps periodically wagging their tails as woofy cuckoo clocks.

Sunni elites, and Tehran periodically reminds the world that it believes Bahrain should again be a part of Iran, as it was at the height of the Persian Empire.

Brownian motion, hunting for a chemotactic trail to some richer and filthier hunting ground, and periodically peeling off copies of itself.