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cyc

/saɪk/

cyc is the clipping of cyclorama.

Meaning of cyclorama

Noun

cyclorama (plural cycloramas)

  1. A panoramic image displayed on the inside of a cylindrical canvas.
    • Robert Loo sat, quite content, behind the counter, against a cyclorama of tins of milk and corned beef.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 461
    Synonyms:
    diorama
  2. (metonymically) A building or room designed to show this image.
  3. A large, often concave, backdrop, hung upstage in a theater.

Noun capitalized: CYC

CYC (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of cyclophosphamide.

Forms of cyc

pluralcycs

Words that rhyme with cyc

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Questions about cyc

What is cyc the clipping of?
Cyc is the clipping of cyclorama.
What part of speech is cyc?
Cyc is a noun.
How do you pronounce cyc?
Cyc is pronounced /saɪk/.
What is the plural of cyc?
The plural of cyc is cycs.

Words near cyc in the dictionary

  1. cybridizations
  2. cybrids
  3. Cybulski
  4. Cybulskis
  5. cyburban
  6. cyc
  7. cycad
  8. cycad blue
  9. cycad blues
  10. cycadaceous
  11. cycadean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyc (page history and authors); CYC (page history and authors); cyclorama (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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