cycle
/ˈsaɪkəl/ · noun
Meaning
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- 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.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- To turn power off and back on
- 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
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