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Plural of cycle

regular plural

The plural of cycle is cycles.

Forms of cycle

Singularcycle /ˈsaɪ.kəl/
Pluralcycles /ˈsaɪkəlz/
Countablecountable

Cycles in a sentence

  • Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.2014, R.T. Wyant, Thomas Burns, Risk Management of Less Lethal Options, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 211
  • The repeated pressurization cycles fatigued the airplane's metal skin until it eventually broke up in flight.From the entry fatigue
  • The carbon chain of an alkane may be linear or branched, but must not contain loops (cycles); its chemical formula is of the form CₙH₂ₙ₊₂.From the entry alkane
  • National Moth Week celebrates the beauty, life cycles, and habitats of moths.2026 July 20, “National Moth Week”, in Gardening For Life Project. From the entry moth-er
  • But wars play out in the lives of people and nations, not news cycles.2026 March 2, Ben Rhodes, “Trump May Come to Regret This”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry news cycle

Meaning of cycle

  1. noun An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
  2. noun A complete rotation of anything.
  3. noun A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.

Full definition of cycle

Questions about the plural of cycle

What is the plural of cycle?
The plural of cycle is cycles.
Is cycle countable?
Cycle is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cycle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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