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cyclical

/ˈsaɪklɪkəl/

cyclical adjective: recurring at regular intervals.

Adjective

cyclical (comparative more cyclical, superlative most cyclical)

  1. Recurring at regular intervals.
    • Nobody thinks the cyclical turn is possible until it's already well underway.2021 December 1, Charles Hugh Smith, The Long Cycles Have All Turned: Look Out Below
  2. Rolled up circularly.
    • a cyclical embryo

Noun

cyclical (plural cyclicals)

  1. (in plural, often) A stock of a cyclical company.

cyclical meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Persian

cyclical in Tamil

மீண்டும் மீண்டும் சுழன்று வருகிற, மண்டலிக்கிற, காலவரன்முறை வட்டத்துக்குரிய, செய்யுள் தொகைநிலைத் தொடருக்குரிய, வளைய அமைப்புடைய, வளையத்தொகுதிகளாக அமைந்துள்ள

cyclical in Malayalam

recurring, recurrent, regular
ചാക്രിക, ചാക്രികം, ചാക്ര, ചാക്രേയ, ചക്രഗതിയിലുള്ള, ആവർത്തിച്ചു വരുന്ന

cyclical in Persian

recurring at regular intervals — see also cyclic
چرخهای čarxe-'i

Synonyms of cyclical

Forms of cyclical

Adjective
comparativemore cyclical
superlativemost cyclical
Noun
pluralcyclicals

Origin of cyclical

From cyclic + -al.

Words formed from cyclical

Questions about cyclical

What does cyclical mean?
Cyclical means recurring at regular intervals.
What is cyclical in Tamil?
Cyclical in Tamil is மீண்டும் மீண்டும் சுழன்று வருகிற, மண்டலிக்கிற, காலவரன்முறை வட்டத்துக்குரிய. See Cyclical meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cyclical?
Cyclical can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce cyclical?
Cyclical is pronounced /ˈsaɪklɪkəl/.

Words near cyclical in the dictionary

  1. cyclic rates
  2. cyclic redundancy check
  3. cyclic redundancy checks
  4. cyclic vomiting syndrome
  5. cyclic-inscriptable
  6. cyclical
  7. cyclical unemployment
  8. cyclical vomiting syndrome
  9. cyclicalism
  10. cyclicalities
  11. cyclicality

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyclical (page history and authors); cyclical (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cyclical (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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