Periodic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having or marked by repeated cycles.
  • adj. Happening or appearing at regular intervals.
  • adj. Recurring or reappearing from time to time; intermittent.
  • adj. Characterized by periodic sentences.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or derived from a periodic acid.
  • adj. Relative to a period or periods.
  • adj. Having repeated cycles.
  • adj. Occurring at regular intervals.
  • adj. Pertaining to the revolution of a celestial object in its orbit.
  • adj. periodical
  • adj. Having a structure characterized by periodic sentences.
  • adj. for which any return to it must occur in multiples of time steps, for some .
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO�) of iodine.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
  • adj. Performed in a period, or regular revolution; proceeding in a series of successive circuits.
  • adj. Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of a period, cycle, or round of years or events.
  • Performed or proceeding in a series of successive circuits or revolutions: as, the periodic motions of the planets round the sun, or of the moon round the earth.
  • Happening or occurring at regularly recurring intervals of time; statedly recurring; as, a periodic publication; the periodic return of a plant's flowering; periodic outbursts; the periodic character of ague; the periodic motion of a vibrating tuniug-fork or musical string.
  • In rhetoric: Of or pertaining to a period or complete sentence; complete in grammatical structure.
  • Noting that form of sentence in which the sense is incomplete or suspended until the end is reached.
  • In mathematics, with values which recur as the value of the independent variable continuously increases.
  • Noting an acid, a substance produced by the interaction of iodine and aqueous perchloric acid, known only in crystals which contain two molecules of water: HIO4.2H2O. Its solution has a strong acid reaction and it forms several distinct series of salts.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. happening or recurring at regular intervals
  • adj. recurring or reappearing from time to time
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    irregular    aperiodic   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    recurring    epochal    seasonal    cyclic    serial    secular    termly    centennial   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    episodic    melodic    rhapsodic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    frequent    monthly    ongoing    successive    subsequent    nightly    periodical    intermittent    seasonal    impending