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Periodicity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The quality or state of being periodic; recurrence at regular intervals.

n. The repetition of similar properties in chemical elements, as indicated by their positioning in the periodic table.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Recurrence of a woman's periods; menstruation.

n. The quality of being periodic; tendency to recur at regular intervals.

n. The quality of a function with a repeated set of values at regular intervals.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Periodic character; habitual tendency or disposition to recur at stated intervals of time.

n. In physical, the number of recurrences of a periodic motion, such as a vibration, in a unit of time; specifically, in electricity, the number of complete periods or cycles per second of an alternating or oscillating current: same as frequency. The usual electrical frequencies are 25 and 60 in the United States and 50 in Europe.

n. In botany, the habit in a plant of adjusting its growth or the movements of its organs to regular changes in conditions (of light, heat, etc.), either annual or diurnal. Periodicity is also exhibited in some spontaneous movements not correlated with time of day or season. See phenology, sleep, 5, sensitive-plant, and periodic movement.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of recurring at regular intervals

Word Usage

"Thomas Gradgrind, a man of facts and calculations, spoke as a representative of what modern philosophers would characterise, in the context of what is described as periodicity, as the modern age."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

regularity

Cross Reference

law of periodicity factorial periodicity modulus of periodicity periodicity of an operation filarial periodicity

Hyponym

regular recurrence rhythm

Same Context

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seasonality dimorphism spacings remittance cyclicality