periodick

Adjective

periodic (not comparable)

1. Relative to a period or periods.
2. Having repeated cycles.
   • There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock

   Synonyms:

   cyclic

3. Occurring at regular intervals.
   • That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets.2009 February 15, Judith Martin, “It Started in Naples”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022

   Synonyms:

   cyclic

4. Periodical.
5. Pertaining to the revolution of a celestial object in its orbit.

   Antonyms:

   non-periodic

6. (stochastic processes) For which any return to it must occur in multiples of k time steps, for some k>1.

   Antonyms:

   aperiodic

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