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polycycles

polycycles is the plural of polycycle.

Meaning of polycycle

Noun

polycycle (plural polycycles)

  1. A planar countably locally-finite graph in which all interior vertices have the maximum vertex degree and all interior faces are polygons with the same number of faces.
    • Recall that the cyclicity of a polycycle in a family of equations is the maximal number of limit cycles that may occur from the polycycle in this family.2004, Normal Forms, Bifurcations and Finiteness Problems in Differential Equations
  2. (radar) A waveform with multiple cycles of the carrier within the pulse envelope.

Questions about polycycles

What is polycycles the plural of?
Polycycles is the plural of polycycle.

Words near polycycles in the dictionary

  1. polycyanate
  2. polycyanates
  3. polycyanurate
  4. polycyanurates
  5. polycycle
  6. polycycles
  7. polycyclic
  8. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
  9. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
  10. polycyclical
  11. polycyclicity

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