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cyclic

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 5.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals; cyclical
    The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.
  2. adjective Having chains of atoms arranged in a ring.
    Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.
  3. adjective Having parts arranged in a whorl.
  4. adjective Being generated by only one element.
  5. adjective Able to be inscribed in a circle.
  6. adjective Firing at its full cyclic rate.
  7. noun The flight control used to control a helicopter's direction and rate of horizontal movement by tilting the lift vector of the helicopter's main rotor disk.

Similar words

cyclical bicyclic verticillated alternate circular alternating periodic diurnal every other periodical

Often followed by

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Word family

cycle cycled cycles cyclical cyclically cyclicly cyclics cycling

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