Periodic (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
  2. occurring or appearing at regular intervals: periodic visits by doctors to the village.
  3. repeated at irregular intervals; intermittent: periodic outbreaks of the disease.
  4. recurring at equal intervals of time.
  5. (of a function) having a graph that repeats after a fixed interval (period ) of the independent variable.
  6. Astronomy.
    • characterized by a series of successive circuits or revolutions, as the motion of a planet or satellite.
    • of or relating to a period, as of the revolution of a heavenly body.
  7. pertaining to or characterized by rhetorical periods, or periodic sentences.
adjective Chemistry.
  1. of or derived from a periodic acid.
adjective
  1. happening or recurring at intervals; intermittent
  2. of, relating to, or resembling a period
  3. having or occurring in repeated periods or cycles
Periodic (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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