cycle
IPA: sˈaɪkʌɫ
noun
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- (music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- An age; a long period of time.
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
- (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
- (sports) A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
verb
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
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Examples of "cycle" in Sentences
- Regulation of the cardiac cycle.
- The object terminates the cycle.
- Biochemical switches in the cell cycle.
- He is the narrator of much of the cycle.
- He can ride a tricycle as well as a motor cycle.
- The reproductive cycle of the wheel bug initiates in autumn.
- This draws many cycling fanatics to cycle the cols and watch the race.
- i = 1 cycle: = farmy/2 newx = % startx% newy = % starty% loop, % cycle%
- As with the complementary cycle, the rule of clans goes in the said cycle.
- Cycle chic or bicycle chic is the culture of cycling in fashionable clothes.
- The one Connecticut contest that does look like a barnburner this cycle is the Shays-Himes race … ..
- And you know the cycle is about to end when everything is controlled, when there are few outlets for creativity.
- But we do mean to propose that we probably reached the bottom of the title cycle sometimes around the midyear this year.
- Get ready because the washing machine races will be going at full spin cycle from the White House via their cultist followers and the tepid MSMs.
- (From BarnesandNoble. com) Two decades strong, the Saint-Germain cycle is one of the most compelling works of dark fantasy and horror of our age.
- Whether she would want to pay cut from her stratospheric £400,000 is questionable, and why bother when it is clearly yet another spin cycle from the Brown ministry of truth.
- And then the party completely wasted its time in the wilderness by adopting the Rahm Emanuel method of just restocking with the same kind of DINOs who were defeated in 94, with the predictable result that the cycle is about to repeat again.
- The kind of person who perpetuates this cycle is the kind of person who considers themselves a film buff when their experience is mostly limited to eighties action movies, or a big reader despite the fact that they never read anything but epic fantasy and pulp sci-fi.