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# A complete [[rotation]] of anything. |
# A complete [[rotation]] of anything. |
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# A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence. |
# A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence. |
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|passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the '''cycle''' begins again.}} |
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# The members of the sequence formed by such a process. |
# The members of the sequence formed by such a process. |
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# {{context|music|lang=en}} In musical [[set theory]], an '''interval cycle''' is the set of [[pitch class]]es resulting from repeatedly applying the same [[interval class]] to the starting pitch class. |
# {{context|music|lang=en}} In musical [[set theory]], an '''interval cycle''' is the set of [[pitch class]]es resulting from repeatedly applying the same [[interval class]] to the starting pitch class. |
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#: {{usex|lang=en|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.}} |
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# A series of poems, songs or other works of art |
# A series of poems, songs or other works of art. |
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#: {{usex|lang=en|The "Ring of the Nibelung" is a '''cycle''' of four operas by Richard Wagner, the famous nineteenth-century German composer.}} |
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# A [[programme]] on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device. |
# A [[programme]] on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device. |
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#: {{usex|lang=en|Put the washing in on a warm '''cycle'''.}} |
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# A [[pedal]]-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike. |
# A [[pedal]]-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike. |
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# {{context|baseball|lang=en}} A [[single]], a [[double]], a [[triple]], and a [[home run]] hit by the same player in the same game. |
# {{context|baseball|lang=en}} A [[single]], a [[double]], a [[triple]], and a [[home run]] hit by the same player in the same game. |
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#: {{usex|lang=en|Jones hit for the '''cycle''' in the game.}} |
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# {{context|graph theory|lang=en}} A [[closed]] [[walk]] or [[path]], with or without repeated [[vertices]] allowed. |
# {{context|graph theory|lang=en}} A [[closed]] [[walk]] or [[path]], with or without repeated [[vertices]] allowed. |
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Revision as of 03:32, 29 September 2013
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin (deprecated template usage) cyclus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) κύκλος (kúklos), reduplicated form of a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European Template:term/t. Cognates include Sanskrit (deprecated template usage) चक्र (cakrá), Latin (deprecated template usage) colus, Old English Template:term/t (English (deprecated template usage) wheel), English (deprecated template usage) ancillary
Noun
cycle (plural cycles)
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- (deprecated template usage) (music) In 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.
- Lua error in Module:usex/templates at line 93: Parameter "lang" is not used by this template.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
- Lua error in Module:usex/templates at line 93: Parameter "lang" is not used by this template.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- Lua error in Module:usex/templates at line 93: Parameter "lang" is not used by this template.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike.
- (deprecated template usage) (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- Lua error in Module:usex/templates at line 93: Parameter "lang" is not used by this template.
- (deprecated template usage) (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
Usage notes
- (baseball sense): As in the example sentence, one is usually said to (deprecated template usage) hit for the cycle. However, other uses also occur, such as (deprecated template usage) hit a cycle and (deprecated template usage) complete the cycle.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
cycle (third-person singular simple present cycl, present participle ing, simple past and past participle cycled)
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (deprecated template usage) (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
- (deprecated template usage) (ice hockey) To 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.
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin (deprecated template usage) cyclus.
Noun
cycle m (plural cycles)
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) cycle
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- English verbs
- en:Electronics
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- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms derived from Late Latin
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin noun forms
- Latin terms spelled with Y