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`cy-cle
`[sahy-kuh l]
`Examples
`Word Origin
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`noun
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`1.
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`any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
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`2.
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`a round of years or a recurring period of time, especially one in which certain events or
`phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.
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`3.
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`any long period of years; age.
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`4.
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`a bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
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`5.
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`6.
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`a group of poems, dramas, prose narratives, songs etc., about a central theme, figure, or the
`like:
`"the Arthurian cycle."
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`a. a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a final state identical to the
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`original one.
`b. one of a succession of periodically recurring events.
`c. a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and minimum value,
`returning to a final value equal to the original one.
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`Mathematics. a permutation of a set of elements that leaves the original cyclic order of the
`elements unchanged.
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`verb (used without object), cycled, cycling.
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`9.
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`to ride or travel by bicycle (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bicycle), motorcycle
`(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/motorcycle), tricycle
`(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tricycle), etc.
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`10.
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`to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.
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`Idioms
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`hit for the cycle, Baseball. (of one player) to hit a single, double, triple, and home run in one
`11.
`game.
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`Origin
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`Middle English
`Late Latin
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`Greek
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`1350-1400; Middle English cicle < Late Latin cyclus < Greek kýklos cycle, circle, wheel, ring, disk,
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`1350-1400
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`orb; see wheel (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wheel)
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`Related forms
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`supercycle, noun
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`Examples for cy-cle
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`It coincides with the fruit harvest, and marks the end of the agricultural cycle.
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`This cross breeding has the added effect of confusing the breeding cycle.
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`This exposes the animal to danger and also disrupts the breeding cycle.
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`British Dictionary definitions for cy-cle
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`cycle
`/ˈsaɪkəl/
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`noun
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`1.
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`a recurring period of time in which certain events or phenomena occur and reach completion
`or repeat themselves in a regular sequence
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`2.
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`a completed series of events that follows or is followed by another series of similar events
`occurring in the same sequence
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`3.
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`the time taken or needed for one such series
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`4.
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`a vast period of time; age; aeon
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`5.
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`a group of poems or prose narratives forming a continuous story about a central figure or
`event the Arthurian cycle
`Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
`© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
`a series of miracle plays the Chester cycle
`6.
`Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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`a group or sequence of songs See song cycle (/browse/song cycle)
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`Word Origin and History for cy-cle
`short for bicycle (/browse/bicycle), tricycle (/browse/tricycle), motorcycle
`8.
`(/browse/motorcycle)
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`n.
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`(astronomy) the orbit of a celestial body
`9.
`late 14c., from Late Latin cyclus, from Greek kyklos "circle, wheel, any circular body, circular
`a recurrent series of events or processes in plants and animals a life cycle, a growth cycle, a
`10.
`motion, cycle of events," from PIE *kwel- "to roll, to move around, wheel" (cf. Sanskrit cakram
`metabolic cycle
`"circle, wheel," carati "he moves, wanders;" Avestan caraiti "applies himself," c'axra "chariot,
`wagon;" Greek polos "a round axis" (PIE *kw- becomes Greek p- before some vowels), polein
`"move around;" Latin colere "to frequent, dwell in, to cultivate, move around," cultus "tended,
`(physics) a continuous change or a sequence of changes in the state of a system that leads
`11.
`cultivated," hence also "polished," colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler, colonist;"
`to the restoration of the system to its original state after a finite period of time
`Lithuanian kelias "a road, a way;" Old Norse hvel, Old English hweol "wheel;" Old Russian kolo,
`Polish koło, Russian koleso "a wheel").
`one of a series of repeated changes in the magnitude of a periodically varying quantity, such
`12.
`as current or voltage
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`v.
`(computing)
`13.
`a. a set of operations that can be both treated and repeated as a unit
`1842, "revolve in cycles," from cycle (/browse/cycle) (n.). Meaning "to ride a bicycle" is from
`b. the time required to complete a set of operations
`1883. Related: Cycled; cycling.
`c. one oscillation of the regular voltage waveform used to synchronize processes in a digital
`computer
`Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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`(in generative grammar) the set of cyclic rules
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`cy-cle in Medicine
`verb
`cycle cy·cle (sī'kəl)
`(transitive) to process through a cycle or system
`15.
`n.
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`1. An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of
`(intransitive) to move in or pass through cycles
`16.
`events occurs.
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`2. A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon.
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`3. A periodically repeated sequence of events.
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`The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
`Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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`cy-cle in Science
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` (sī'kəl) (http://content.dictionary.com/help/dictionary/ahsd/pronkey.html)
`1. A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon. See also period
`(/browse/period).
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`2. A circular or whorled arrangement of flower parts such as those of petals or stamens.
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`Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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`cy-cle in Technology
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`unit
`A basic unit of computation, one period of a computer clock
`(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/clock).
`Each instruction (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/instruction) takes a number of clock cycles.
`Often the computer can access its memory once on every clock cycle, and so one speaks also of
`"memory cycles".
`Every hacker (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hacker) wants more cycles (noted hacker Bill
`Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie"). There are only so many cycles per second, and when you
`are sharing a computer the cycles get divided up among the users. The more cycles the computer
`spends working on your program rather than someone else's, the faster your program will run. That's
`why every hacker wants more cycles: so he can spend less time waiting for the computer to respond.
`The use of the term "cycle" for a computer clock period can probably be traced back to the rotation of
`a generator generating alternating current though computers generally use a clock signal which is more
`like a square wave (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/square%20wave). Interestingly, the
`earliest mechanical calculators, e.g. Babbage's Difference Engine
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`true cycles.
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