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multicycle

multicycle noun: a kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.

Noun

multicycle (plural multicycles)

  1. A kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.
  2. A velocipede with more than three wheels; specifically, one developed in the 19th century with seven pairs of wheels, capable of carrying five to twelve people but steered by only one.

Adjective

multicycle (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to more than one cycle.
    • Mark Hill suggested dropping the multicycle processor implementation and instead adding a multicycle cache controller to the memory hierarchy chapter. This allowed the processor to be presented in a single chapter instead of two.2009, David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface, page xix

Forms of multicycle

pluralmulticycles

Origin of multicycle

From multi- + cycle.

Questions about multicycle

What does multicycle mean?
Multicycle means a kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.
What part of speech is multicycle?
Multicycle can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of multicycle?
The plural of multicycle is multicycles.

Words near multicycle in the dictionary

  1. multicusped
  2. multicuspid
  3. multicuspidate
  4. multicuspids
  5. multicustomer
  6. multicycle
  7. multicycles
  8. multicyclic
  9. multicyclone
  10. multicyclones
  11. multicylinder

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