Meaning of CYCLIC
| Pronunciation: | | 'sIklik
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- [adj] recurring in cycles
- [adj] chemistry; having atoms arranged in a ring structure
- [adj] botany; forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl; "cyclic petals"; "cyclic flowers"
- [adj] marked by repeated cycles
- [adj] (thermodynamics) conforming to the Carnot cycle
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| | Synonyms: | | alternate(a), alternating(a), bicyclic, circular, closed-chain, closed-ring, cyclical, diurnal, every other(a), heterocyclic, homocyclic, isocyclic, periodic, periodical, verticillate, verticillated, whorled |
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| | Antonyms: | | acyclic, noncyclic, noncyclical, open-chain | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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. --Coleridge.
{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.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Of floral organs, several borne at the same level on the axis; whorled. Compare spiral. |
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| | Related Terms: | | alternate, annular, annulate, annulose, articulated, atomatic, atomic, atomiferous, atomistic, beating, catenated, ceaseless, circinate, circling, circular, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, coronary, crownlike, cyclical, cycloid, diatomic, dibasic, direct, discoid, disklike, endless, epochal, even, ever-recurring, every other, featureless, frequent, gapless, haunting, heteroatomic, heterocyclic, hexatomic, homocyclic, immediate, incessant, interminable, intermittent, isobaric, isochronal, isocyclic, isoteric, isotopic, joined, jointless, linked, measured, metronomic, monatomic, monotonous, never-ending, nonstop, oscillatory, pentatomic, perennial, periodic, periodical, pulsing, reappearing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, repetitive, returning, revenant, rhythmic, ringlike, ring-shaped, rotary, round, rounded, round-the-clock, running, seamless, seasonal, serial, serried, smooth, stable, steady, straight, subatomic, tetratomic, thematic, thick-coming, triatomic, tribasic, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, undulant, undulatory, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, wavelike, wheeling |
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