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Cycle \Cy"cle\ (s?"k'l), n. [F. ycle, LL. cyclus, fr. Gr. ky`klos ring or circle, cycle; akin to Skr. cakra wheel, circle. See Wheel.]

  1. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
    --Milton.

  2. An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.

    Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.
    --Burke.

  3. An age; a long period of time.

    Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
    --Tennyson.

  4. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. [Obs.]

    We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.
    --Evelyn.

  5. The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

  6. (Bot.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
    --Gray.

  7. A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.

  8. A motorcycle.

  9. (Thermodynamics) A series of operations in which heat is imparted to (or taken away from) a working substance which by its expansion gives up a part of its internal energy in the form of mechanical work (or being compressed increases its internal energy) and is again brought back to its original state.

  10. (Technology) A complete positive and negative, or forward and reverse, action of any periodic process, such as a vibration, an electric field oscillation, or a current alternation; one period. Hence: (Elec.) A complete positive and negative wave of an alternating current. The number of cycles (per second) is a measure of the frequency of an alternating current.

    Calippic cycle, a period of 76 years, or four Metonic cycles; -- so called from Calippus, who proposed it as an improvement on the Metonic cycle.

    Cycle of eclipses, a period of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; -- called Saros by the Chaldeans.

    Cycle of indiction, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors.

    Cycle of the moon, or Metonic cycle, a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from Meton, who first proposed it.

    Cycle of the sun, Solar cycle, a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also called the cycle of the Sunday letter. In the Gregorian calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the end of the century.

Saros

Saros \Sa"ros\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?] (Astron)

  1. A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years.
    --Brande & C.

  2. A length of time (6535.82 days, or 18 years 11.32 days, assuming 4 leap years in that interval), after which the eclipses of the sun repeat their pattern, but are shifted 120[deg] west.

Wikipedia
Saros (astronomy)

The saros is a period of approximately 223 synodic months (approximately 6585.3211 days, or 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours), that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. One saros period after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon return to approximately the same relative geometry, a near straight line, and a nearly identical eclipse will occur, in what is referred to as an eclipse cycle. A sar is one half of a saros.

A series of eclipses that are separated by one saros is called a saros series.

Saros

Saros may refer to:

  • Saros (astronomy), an 18-year period, across which lunar and solar eclipses repeat
  • Saros (band), an American band
  • Saros (Nigeria), descendants of free slaves from Sierra Leone who migrated to Nigeria
  • Saros (software) an Eclipse plug-in for distributed collaborative text editing
  • SS Saros, a shipwreck off the southeast coast of Australia
Saros (software)

Saros is an Eclipse plug-in for distributed collaborative text editing that can support five participants at once (typically two or three). It can be used for a variety of purposes ranging from simple remote code review, over Remote pair programming, through to variants of Side-by-side programming with more than two participants.

Saros (band)

Saros is a progressive death / doom metal band based out of San Francisco, California. The band was formed in 2004 and has released a demo (given out for free at shows) and one full length ( Five Pointed Tongue, released on Hungry Eye Records, 2006). The album features the band's distinct epic song structure, melded to fast paced melodic riffing. Saros is Leila Abdul Rauf (Guitar and Vocals - currently an active member of Amber Asylum), Ben Aguilar (Guitar), Tim Scammell (Bass) and Blood Eagle (drums - previously of the band Weakling.)

Five Pointed Tongue received favorable critical reaction, Metal Coven describing it as "pretty damn good", and Void Expression describing it as "one of the most promising debut releases of the past year".

The band has completed recording their second full length, titled "Acrid Plains". Produced by Billy Anderson, the album was released in March 2009 on Profound Lore Records.

Usage examples of "saros".

Name of Calandra Vissi, originally from Saros, in transit to assignment on Kalapriya.

There is such a one in the stone town, and once or twice in each saros one of those he has called to him will sup with us.

The decades of a saros would not be long enough for me to write all they meant to the ragged apprentice boy I was.