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Cycle

noun
/ˈsaɪkəl/
Word Frequency: 40.3

Definitions

1.nounAn interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
"the cycle of the seasons, or of the year"
2.nounA complete rotation of anything.
3.nounA process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
"electoral cycle"
4.nounThe members of the sequence formed by such a process.
5.nounIn musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
"The interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, G# and C."
6.nounA series of poems, songs or other works of art.
"The "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner."
7.nounA programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
"Put the washing in on a warm cycle."
8.nounA pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
9.nounA single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
"Jones hit for the cycle in the game."
10.nounA closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
11.noun(algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
12.nounAn imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
13.nounAn age; a long period of time.
14.nounAn orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
15.nounOne entire round in a circle or a spire.
"a cycle or set of leaves"
16.nounA discharge of a taser.
17.verbTo ride a bicycle or other cycle.
18.verbTo go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
19.verbTo turn power off and back on
"Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily."
20.verbTo maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
"They have their cycling game going tonight."

Synonyms

bikemotorcyclebicyclepedalwheelroundcpshertzhzrhythmcycle per secondcycles/second

Rhymes With

unicyclemichaelticalmichelsiclemotorcyclerecyclechicle
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