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# A complete [[rotation]] of anything.
# A complete [[rotation]] of anything.
# 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.}}
# The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
# The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
# {{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.
#: ''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.''
#: {{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.}}
# A series of poems, songs or other works of art
# A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
#: ''The '''Ring of the Nibelung''' is a '''cycle''' of four operas by Richard Wagner, the famous nineteenth-century German composer.''
#: {{usex|lang=en|The "Ring of the Nibelung" is a '''cycle''' of four operas by Richard Wagner, the famous nineteenth-century German composer.}}
# A [[programme]] on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
# A [[programme]] on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
#: ''Put the washing in on a warm '''cycle'''.''
#: {{usex|lang=en|Put the washing in on a warm '''cycle'''.}}
# 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.
# {{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.
#: ''Jones hit for the '''cycle''' in the game.''
#: {{usex|lang=en|Jones hit for the '''cycle''' in the game.}}
# {{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.


Revision as of 03:32, 29 September 2013

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "LL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. (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)

  1. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
  2. A complete rotation of anything.
  3. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
  4. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
  5. (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.
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  6. A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
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  7. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
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  8. 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.
  9. (deprecated template usage) (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
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  10. (deprecated template usage) (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.

Usage notes

Derived terms

Translations

vehicle — see bicycle

Verb

cycle (third-person singular simple present cycl, present participle ing, simple past and past participle cycled)

  1. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
  2. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
  3. (deprecated template usage) (electronics) To turn power off and back on
    Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
  4. (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.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "LL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. (deprecated template usage) cyclus.

Noun

cycle m (plural cycles)

  1. cycle

Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cycle

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) vocative singular of cyclus
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