Cycle (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  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. 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.
verb (used without object), cy·cled, cy·cling.
  1. to ride or travel by bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
  2. to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.
Idioms
  1. (of one player) to hit a single, double, triple, and home run in one game.
noun
  1. a recurring period of time in which certain events or phenomena occur and reach completion or repeat themselves in a regular sequence
  2. a completed series of events that follows or is followed by another series of similar events occurring in the same sequence
  3. the time taken or needed for one such series
  4. a vast period of time; age; aeon
  5. a group of poems or prose narratives forming a continuous story about a central figure or event
  6. a series of miracle plays
  7. a group or sequence of songs
  8. short for bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle
  9. the orbit of a celestial body
  10. a recurrent series of events or processes in plants and animals
  11. 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
  12. one of a series of repeated changes in the magnitude of a periodically varying quantity, such as current or voltage
  13. 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
  14. (in generative grammar) the set of cyclic rules
verb
  1. to process through a cycle or system
  2. to move in or pass through cycles
  3. to travel by or ride a bicycle or tricycle
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