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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: conforming to the Carnot cycle
2: forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl; "cyclic petals"; "cyclic flowers" [ant: acyclic]
3: of a compound having atoms arranged in a ring structure [ant: acyclic, open-chain]
4: recurring in cycles [syn: cyclic, cyclical] [ant: noncyclic, noncyclical]
5: marked by repeated cycles

Merriam Webster's

or cyclical adjective Date: 1794 1. a. of, relating to, or being a cycle b. moving in cycles <cyclic time> c. of, relating to, or being a chemical compound containing a ring of atoms 2. (cyclic) being a mathematical group that has an element such that every element of the group can be expressed as one of its powers • cyclically also cyclicly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 a recurring in cycles. b belonging to a chronological cycle. 2 Chem. with constituent atoms forming a ring. 3 of a cycle of songs etc. 4 Bot. (of a flower) with its parts arranged in whorls. 5 Math. of a circle or cycle. Etymology: F cyclique or L cyclicus f. Gk kuklikos (as CYCLE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cyclic Cyc"lic (s?k"l?k or s?"kl?k), Cyclical Cyc"lic*al (s?k"l?-kal), a. [Cf. F. cycluque, Gr. kykliko`s, fr. ky`klos See Cycle.] Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. --Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. --Milman.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Cyclic means the same as cyclical. ADJ

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