cyclic
/ˈsaɪ.klɪk/
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Australia/ˈsɑɪ.klɪk/
cyclic adjective: characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals; cyclical.
Adjective (1)
cyclic (comparative more cyclic, superlative most cyclic)
- Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals; cyclical
- The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.
- 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.1960 March, “Talking of Trains: N.E. cyclic m.u. workings”, in Trains Illustrated, page 136
- Synonyms:
- periodic
- Having chains of atoms arranged in a ring.
- Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.
- Having parts arranged in a whorl.
- Being generated by only one element.
- Able to be inscribed in a circle.
- Firing at its full cyclic rate.
- 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...2011, James D. Hornfischer, “26: Suicide”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, retrieved 17 Dec 2022, page 256
Noun
cyclic (plural cyclics)
- 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.
Adjective (2) capitalized: Cyclic
Cyclic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the Ancient Greek Epic Cycle.
- Though Haubold avoids speculating on dates and mechanisms of transmission, his genre of cosmic history in Greece depends on the formation of a Hesiodic and Cyclic canon, not long before the sixth century.2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 18
cyclic meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Malay
cyclic in Tamil
- மீள் சுற்றான, சக்கரம், சுழலான, வட்டமான, ஒருவட்ட, சுழல்
cyclic in Kannada
- ಚಕ್ರದಂತೆ ಸುತ್ತುವ, ಚಕ್ರಗತಿಯ, ಆವರ್ತದ
cyclic in Tagalog
- of a compound having chains of atoms arranged in a ring
- salkupin
cyclic in Malay
- able to be inscribed in a circle
- siklik
More languagesFewer languages
- cyclic in Indonesian
- siklis, siklik
Examples of cyclic in a sentence
- The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
- It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
- All triangles, all rectangles, and all cyclic quadrilaterals are cyclic-inscriptable.
Synonyms of cyclic
Antonyms
Forms of cyclic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more cyclic |
| superlative | most cyclic |
| Noun | |
| plural | cyclics |
Origin of cyclic
From French cyclique or its etymon Classical Latin cyclicus, from Ancient Greek κυκλικός (kuklikós). By surface analysis, cycle + -ic. Piecewise doublet of chakric.
Words formed from cyclic
- alicyclic
- allocyclic
- anticyclic
- autocyclic
- azacyclic
- benzocyclic
- bicyclic
- carbocyclic
- cocyclic
- concyclic
- constacyclic
- cyclical
- cyclically
- cyclic chorus
- cyclic group
- cyclic-inscriptable
- cyclicism
- cyclicity
- cyclicly
- cyclic module
- cyclic nucleotide
- cyclic number
- cyclic poet
- cyclic quadrilateral
- cyclic rate
- cyclic redundancy check
- cyclic vomiting syndrome
- decacyclic
- demicyclic
- dicyclic
- diskcyclic
- electrocyclic
- endocyclic
- eucyclic
- exocyclic
- geocyclic
- heptacyclic
- heterocyclic
- hexacyclic
- holocyclic
- homocyclic
- hypercyclic
- intracyclic
- isocyclic
- macrocyclic
- mesocyclic
- metacyclic
- monocyclic
- multicyclic
- negacyclic
- noncyclic
- octacyclic
- oligocyclic
- ovulocyclic
- oxacyclic
- pancyclic
- pentacyclic
- pericyclic
- photocyclic
- pluricyclic
Phrases with cyclic
Questions about cyclic
- What does cyclic mean?
- Cyclic means characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals; cyclical.
- What is cyclic in Tamil?
- Cyclic in Tamil is மீள் சுற்றான, சக்கரம், சுழலான. See Cyclic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cyclic?
- Cyclic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce cyclic?
- Cyclic is pronounced /ˈsaɪ.klɪk/ (UK).
Words near cyclic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cyclic (page history and authors); Cyclic (page history and authors); cyclic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cyclic (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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