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power-cycles

power-cycles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of power-cycle.

Meaning of power-cycle

Verb

power-cycle (third-person singular simple present power-cycles, present participle power-cycling, simple past and past participle power-cycled)

  1. To turn a device off and then back on again, usually to restore proper function by forcing a malfunctioning or unresponsive device to reset or reinitialize, or as a step in troubleshooting the device.
    • If the computer's frozen, try power-cycling it.

Questions about power-cycles

What is power-cycles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Power-cycles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of power-cycle.

Words near power-cycles in the dictionary

  1. power-creeping
  2. power-creeps
  3. power-crept
  4. power-cycle
  5. power-cycled
  6. power-cycles
  7. power-cycling
  8. power-down
  9. power-dressed
  10. power-egg
  11. power-eggs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: power-cycles (page history and authors); power-cycle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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