cyclical Definition
cy·cli·cal (sik′li kəl; for sense 1 also sīk′-)
adjective
- cyclic
- tending to rise and fall in line with the fluctuations of the business cycle cyclical stocks
cyclical Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
make: Finally there's repetition - a word, gesture or memory used as a leitmotif having the effect of making time cyclical.
Used with adjective complement
- counter: Saidthe counter cyclical for nothing or their own pace.
- become: To become truly cyclical, most of our products will need serious redesign.
Modifies a noun
- mastalgia: In addition, the features of cyclical mastalgia in oriental women were studied by conducting a survey using anonymous questionnaires.
- etidronate: The prevention of corticosteroid induced bone loss with intermittent cyclical etidronate.
- progestogen: Abstract It is common for women receiving estrogen replacement therapy to experience adverse symptoms whilst taking cyclical progestogen.
- downturn: On some estimates, bank capital requirements could as much as double during a cyclical downturn.
- fluctuation: Current tax revenue has to pay for all of current spending, once cyclical fluctuations are averaged out.
- convergence: But they are much less bright if we were to enter the euro without sustainable cyclical convergence.
Modifying Another Word
- highly: This means that companies in highly cyclical businesses will have a high beta to reflect the volatile nature of their cash flow.
- very: There are a few drawbacks: property can be very cyclical and also can be difficult to sell quickly.
- not: History is linear and not cyclical and going on for ever.
- essentially: It describes, in an allegorical way, a theory of the learning process as essentially cyclical.
- almost: Its repetitive riffs and percussion become almost cyclical and hypnotic while slight variations keep pulling you in.
- always: Public movements are always cyclical, reacting to threats, dangers and opportunities as they come to the fore.
Preposition: in
nature: Whilst the airframe business is cyclical in nature with time between projects increasing to decades rather than years.
Browse dictionary entries near cyclical
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