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cycle

/ˈsaɪkəl/ · noun

Meaning

  1. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
  2. A complete rotation of anything.
  3. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
  4. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
  5. In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
  6. A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
  7. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
  8. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
  9. To turn power off and back on
  10. To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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