periodicity

Noun

periodicity (countable and uncountable, plural periodicities)

1. Recurrence of a woman's periods; menstruation.
2. The quality of being periodic; tendency to recur at regular intervals.
   • The implications of this association of women and the moon would suggest that women were the first observers of the basic periodicity of nature, the periodicity upon which all later scientific observations were made.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 97
   • A recent wavelet analysis of the turbidity data showed clear periodicities of turbidity in the three Pilbara datasets during both the baseline and dredge phases of the studies (Stark, unublished data) peaking semidiurnally associated with tides, diurnally associated with daily sea breezes and...2015 October 8, “Temporal Patterns in Seawater Quality from Dredging in Tropical Environments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

   Synonyms:

   cyclicity

3. The quality of a function with a repeated set of values at regular intervals.