cyclical

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.