Cyclic meaning

sĭk'lĭ-kəl, sī'klĭ-kəl
Of or relating to compounds having atoms arranged in a ring or closed-chain structure.
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Of, relating to, or characterized by cycles.

A cyclic pattern of weather changes.

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Recurring or moving in cycles.

Cyclical history.

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Having parts arranged in a whorl.
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Forming a whorl.
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Of, or having the nature of, a cycle; moving or occurring in cycles.
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Of or relating to a major group of organic compounds, structured in closed chains, including aromatic, alicyclic, and heterocyclic compounds.
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Relating to compounds having atoms arranged in a ring or closed-chain structure.
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Relating to or characterized by cycles.

A cyclic pattern of weather changes.

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Recurring or moving in cycles.

Cyclical history.

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Having parts arranged in a whorl.
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Forming a whorl.
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Occurring or moving in cycles.
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Relating to a compound having atoms arranged in a ring or closed-chain structure. Benzene is a cyclic compound.
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Having parts arranged in a whorl.
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Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals.

The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.

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(chemistry) Of a compound having chains of atoms arranged in a ring.

Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.

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(botany) Having parts arranged in a whorl.
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(mathematics, of a group) Being generated by only one element.
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(geometry, of a polygon) Able to be inscribed in a circle.
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Sentence Examples

  • authorship which is so common with other " Cyclic " poems. How has this come about?

  • Those forms of aestivation are such as occur in cyclic flowers, and they are included under circular aestivation.

  • Here we meet with a great diversity of types: oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and other elements may, in addition to carbon, combine together in a great number of arrangements to form cyclic nuclei, which exhibit characters closely resembling open-chain compounds in so far as they yield substitution derivatives, and behave as compound radicals.

  • Flowers which are cyclic at one portion and spiral at another, as in many Ranunculaceae, are termed hemicyclic. In spiral flowers the distinction into series is by no means easy, and usually there is a gradual passage from sepaloid through petaloid to staminal parts, as in the water-lily family, Nymphaeaceae (figs.

  • Yet Arctinus of Miletus was said to have been a " disciple of Homer," and was certainly one of the earliest and most considerable of the " Cyclic " poets.

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