Definitions for cyclic

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cyclic cy·clic

Spelling: [sahy-klik, sik-lik]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ klɪk, ˈsɪk lɪk/

Cyclic is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in cyclic (cccily).

Definitions for cyclic

adjective

1. revolving or recurring in cycles; characterized by recurrence in cycles.
2. of, relating to, or constituting a cycle or cycles.
3. Chemistry. of or relating to a compound that contains a closed chain or ring of atoms (contrasted with acyclic).
4. Botany. arranged in whorls, as the parts of a flower. (of a flower) having the parts so arranged.
5. Mathematics. pertaining to an algebraic system in which all the elements of a group are powers of one element. (of a set of elements) arranged as if on a circle, so that the first element follows the last.

Origin of cyclic

1785-95; Latin cyclicus Greek kyklikós circular. See cycle, -ic

Examples for cyclic

But we now see it was beyond any doubt part of a cyclic work.

There is clearly some cyclic factor in the situation which we do not yet understand.

It is admitted that the poets did not in the same way "expurgate" the "cyclic" epics.

The atmospheric changes may have been either progressive or cyclic, or both.

In the latter case the motion is said to be cyclic, in the former acyclic.

Again some cyclic factor in the situation remains to be worked out.

Let others try to reconcile the cyclic fragments, or vindicate the Catalogue of ships.

Another fact strikes the observer: the cyclic march of evolution.

It is in the cyclic poems that we should naturally seek for materials to enlarge, expound, or correct Homer.

The cyclic poems are certainly the production of a late and changed age?