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Definitions for Cycles

[1] any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
[2] a round of years or a recurring period of time, especially one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.
[3] any long period of years; age.
[4] a bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
[5] a group of poems, dramas, prose narratives, songs etc., about a central theme, figure, or the like: the Arthurian cycle.
[6] Physics . a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a final state identical to the original one. one of a succession of periodically recurring events. a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and minimum value, returning to a final value equal to the original one.
[7] Mathematics . a permutation of a set of elements that leaves the original cyclic order of the elements unchanged.
[8] Computers . the smallest interval of time required to complete an operation in a computer. a series of computer operations repeated as a unit.
[9] to ride or travel by bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
[10] to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.
[11] hit for the cycle , Baseball . (of one player) to hit a single, double, triple, and home run in one game.
[12] a recurring period of time in which certain events or phenomena occur and reach completion or repeat themselves in a regular sequence
[13] a completed series of events that follows or is followed by another series of similar events occurring in the same sequence
[14] the time taken or needed for one such series
[15] a vast period of time; age; aeon
[16] a group of poems or prose narratives forming a continuous story about a central figure or event the Arthurian cycle
[17] a series of miracle plays the Chester cycle
[18] a group or sequence of songs See song cycle
[19] short for bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle
[20] astronomy the orbit of a celestial body
[21] a recurrent series of events or processes in plants and animals a life cycle ; a growth cycle ; a metabolic cycle
[22] physics a continuous change or a sequence of changes in the state of a system that leads to the restoration of the system to its original state after a finite period of time
[23] one of a series of repeated changes in the magnitude of a periodically varying quantity, such as current or voltage
[24] computing a set of operations that can be both treated and repeated as a unit the time required to complete a set of operations one oscillation of the regular voltage waveform used to synchronize processes in a digital computer
[25] (in generative grammar) the set of cyclic rules
[26] (tr) to process through a cycle or system
[27] (intr) to move in or pass through cycles
[28] to travel by or ride a bicycle or tricycle

Words nearby Cycles

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Origin of Cycles

1350–1400; Middle English cicle < Late Latin cyclus < Greek kýklos cycle, circle, wheel, ring, disk, orb; see wheel

Other words from Cycles

su·per·cy·cle , noun

Word origin for Cycles

C14: from Late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos cycle, circle, ring, wheel; see wheel

Synonyms for Cycles

course, period, revolution, rhythm, round, series, aeon, age, alternation, chain, circle, circuit, eon, loop, orbit, periodicity, ring, rotation, run, sequel, sequence, succession, wheel, isochronism