cycle
Cycle or cyclical ( Latin cyclus from ancient Greek κύκλος kýklos "circle") stands for:
- Menstrual cycle , about a month's process in the female body, starting on the first day of the menstrual period
- Pedal cycle , in cycling the smallest uniformly repeated unit of movement when cycling
- Circular process , in thermodynamics a periodic sequence of changes in the state of a working medium
- Wilson cycle (plate tectonics)
artistic:
- Cycle of poems , large literary form
- Novel cycle , series of stand-alone novels
- Cycle (art) , a series of works of art subordinate to an image program
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Cycle (music) , multi-part composition
- Piano cycle , multi-part piano work
- Song cycle , song circle
mathematically:
- Cycle (function theory) , generalization of a closed curve
- Cycle (graph theory) , path in a graph in which the start and end nodes are the same
- Cyclic group , in group theory a group created by a single element
- Cyclic permutation , permutation that swaps certain elements of a set in a circle and holds the rest
astronomic:
biochemical:
- chemical material cycle
- Citric acid cycle , citric acid cycle or Szent Györgyi – Krebs cycle
- Urea cycle , ornithine or Krebs-Henseleit cycle
- Carbon cycle , carbon cycle
- Nitrogen cycle , nitrogen cycle
virological:
- Lysogenic cycle , form of multiplication of viruses and phages
- Lytic cycle , development phase after the formation of new virions
social science:
- Anti-cyclical behavior , contrary to general expectations or usual behavioral patterns
economics:
- Cycle of economic
- Kondratjew cycle , long wave theory on cyclical economic development
- Pig cycle , periodic fluctuation on the supply side, originally for pork
mathematically:
- Periodic function (e.g. sine curve )
See also:
- Cycle
- Season (cyclically recurring period of a year, e.g. high season , winter season, summer season)
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Wiktionary: cycle - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: cyclic - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
