cyclic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κυκλικός (kuklikós). Possibly from cycle +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.klɪk/, /ˈsɪk.lɪk/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑɪ.klɪk/

Adjective

cyclic (comparative more cyclic, superlative most cyclic)

1. Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals.

   The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.

   • 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: N.E. cyclic m.u. workings”, in Trains Illustrated, page 136:

     Our recent article on the York-Knaresborough-Harrogate branch mentioned that the diesel multiple-units covering the passenger service did so in the course of complicated cyclic diagrams.

2. (chemistry, of a compound) Having chains of atoms arranged in a ring.

   Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.

3. (botany) Having parts arranged in a whorl.
4. (mathematics, of a group) Being generated by only one element.
5. (geometry, of a polygon) Able to be inscribed in a circle.
6. (firearms, of an automatic weapon) Firing at its full cyclic rate.
   • 2011, James D. Hornfischer, “26: Suicide”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal‎^[1], New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, retrieved 17 December 2022, page 256:

     On it came, closer and closer, and as it did so it became clear that the pilot, if he was alive, had terminal intentions. Though the torpedo somehow missed, the plane itself did not. To those watching helplessly from other stations, the ship's antiaircraft gunners, in their final moments, were an inspiration: eyes focused through iron sights on the plane as it sped at them, weapons hot, going cyclic, hunched down and never flinching until the Betty struck high on the mainmast, killing them all.

Synonyms

• (happening at regular intervals): periodic; see also Thesaurus:periodic

Antonyms

• acyclic

Derived terms

• cyclic chorus
• cyclic group
• cyclic-inscriptable
• cyclicity
• cyclic nucleotide
• cyclic number
• cyclic poet
• cyclic quadrilateral
• cyclic rate
• cyclic redundancy check
• cyclic vomiting syndrome
• macrocyclic
• oligocyclic
• pentacyclic
• polycyclic
• tetracyclic
• tricyclic

 

Translations

characterized by, or moving in cycles

• Asturian: cíclicu
• Belarusian: цыклі́чны (cyklíčny)
• Bulgarian: цикличен (bg) (cikličen)
• Catalan: cíclic (ca)
• Czech: cyklický
• Danish: cyklisk (da)
• Dutch: cyclisch (nl)
• Finnish: toistuva (fi), syklinen (fi), säännöllinen (fi)
• French: cyclique (fr)
• Friulian: ciclic
• German: zyklisch (de), periodisch (de)
• Greek: κυκλικός (el) (kyklikós)
• Hebrew: מחזורי m (makhzory), מחזורית f (makhzoryt)
• Hungarian: ciklikus (hu)
• Indonesian: siklis (id)
• Italian: ciclico (it)
• Japanese: 周期的な (ja) (しゅうきてきな, shūkiteki na)
• Latvian: ciklisks
• Polish: okresowy (pl) m, cykliczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: cíclico (pt)
• Russian: цикли́ческий (ru) (ciklíčeskij), цикли́чный (ru) (ciklíčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: cearclach
• Spanish: cíclico (es)
• Swedish: cyklisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: циклі́чний (uk) (cyklíčnyj)

of a compound having chains of atoms arranged in a ring

• Bulgarian: пръстенен (prǎstenen), цикличен (bg) (cikličen)
• Catalan: cíclic (ca)
• Finnish: syklinen (fi)
• German: ringförmig (de)
• Greek: κυκλικός (el) (kyklikós)
• Hungarian: gyűrűs (hu), ciklikus (hu)
• Irish: fáinneach
• Italian: ciclico (it)
• Japanese: 環式の (かんしきの, kanshiki no)
• Polish: pierścieniowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: cíclico (pt)
• Russian: цикли́ческий (ru) (ciklíčeskij)
• Tagalog: salkupin

having parts arranged in a whorl

• Catalan: cíclic (ca)
• Finnish: kierteinen (fi)
• German: ringförmig (de)
• Irish: timthriallach

being generated by only one element

• German: zyklisch (de)
• Hungarian: ciklikus (hu)
• Italian: ciclico (it)
• Polish: cykliczny (pl)
• Portuguese: cíclico (pt) m
• Russian: цикли́ческий (ru) (ciklíčeskij)
• Swedish: cyklisk (sv)

able to be inscribed in a circle

• Greek: εγγράψιμος (el) (engrápsimos)
• Hungarian: ciklikus (hu)
• Indonesian: siklik
• Irish: ciorclach
• Malay: siklik

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• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} cyklisk (sv) (1,2,4)

Noun

cyclic (plural cyclics)

1. (aviation) The flight control used to control a helicopter's direction and rate of horizontal movement by tilting the lift vector of the helicopter's main rotor disk.