Definitions of Cycle [ˈsaɪ kəl]

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Definition of 'Cycle'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) cycle
any complete round or recurring series.

2.  cycle
a round of years or a recurring period of time, esp. one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.

3.  cycle
any long period of years.

4.  cycle
a bicycle, motorcycle, or tricycle.

5.  cycle
a group of poems, stories, songs, etc., about a central theme or figure:
the Arthurian cycle.

6.  cycle
Physics.

7.  cycle
a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a final state identical to the original one.

8.  cycle
one of a succession of periodically recurring events.

9. (v.i.) cycle
to ride a bicycle, motorcycle, or the like.

10.  cycle
to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.

Etymology: (1350–1400; < LL cyclus < Gk kýklos cycle, circle, ring; cf. wheel)

Definition of 'Cycle'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) cycle, rhythm, round
an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
"the never-ending cycle of the seasons"

2. (noun) cycle
a series of poems or songs on the same theme
"Schubert's song cycles"

3. (noun) cycle
a periodically repeated sequence of events
"a cycle of reprisal and retaliation"

4. (noun) hertz, Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps, cycle
the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second

5. (noun) cycle, oscillation
a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
"a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons"

6. (verb) bicycle, bike, wheel, cycle
a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

7. (verb) cycle
cause to go through a recurring sequence
"cycle the laundry in this washing program"

8. (verb) cycle
pass through a cycle
"This machine automatically cycles"

9. (verb) motorbike, motorcycle, cycle
ride a motorcycle

10. (verb) bicycle, cycle, bike, pedal, wheel
ride a bicycle

11. (verb) cycle
recur in repeating sequences

Definition of 'Cycle'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) cycle
a set of events that repeats
the cycle of the seasons

2. (verb) cycle
to ride a bicycle

Definition of 'Cycle'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Cycle
an imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres

2. (noun) Cycle
an interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year

3. (noun) Cycle
an age; a long period of time

4. (noun) Cycle
an orderly list for a given time; a calendar

5. (noun) Cycle
the circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins

6. (noun) Cycle
one entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves

7. (noun) Cycle
a bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede

8. (verb) Cycle
to pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles

9. (verb) Cycle
to ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle

Definitions of 'Cycle'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Cycle
1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a “cycle junkie”). One can describe an instruction as taking so many clock cycles. Often the computer can access its memory once on every clock cycle, and so one speaks also of memory cycles. These are technical meanings of cycle. The jargon meaning comes from the observation that there are only so many cycles per second, and when you are sharing a computer the cycles get divided up among the users. The more cycles the computer spends working on your program rather than someone else's, the faster your program will run. That's why every hacker wants more cycles: so he can spend less time waiting for the computer to respond.

2. By extension, a notional unit of human thought power, emphasizing that lots of things compete for the typical hacker's think time. “I refused to get involved with the Rubik's Cube back when it was big. Knew I'd burn too many cycles on it if I let myself.”

3. vt. Syn. bounce (sense 4), from the phrase ‘cycle power’. “Cycle the machine again, that serial port's still hung.”

Translation of 'Cycle'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to go by bicycle He cycles to work every day.
Afrikaans: fiets, ry fiets	Arabic: يَركَب دَرّاجَه	Bulgarian: карам колело
Brazilian: andar de bicicleta	Czech: jet na kole	German: radeln, radfahren
Danish: cykle	Greek: κάνω ποδήλατο	Spanish: ir en bicicleta
Estonian: jalgrattaga sõitma	Farsi: با دوچرخه رفتن	Finnish: pyöräillä
French: allerà/en bicyclette	Hebrew: לִרְכַּב אוֹפַנַיִים	Hindi: साइकिल चलाना
Croatian: voziti bicikl	Hungarian: kerékpározik	Indonesian: bersepeda
Italian: andare in bicicletta*	Japanese: 自転車に乗る	Korean: 자전거를 타다
Lithuanian: važiuoti dviračiu	Latvian: braukt ar velosipēdu	Malay: mengayuh basikal
Dutch: fietsen	Norwegian: sykle	Polish: jeździć rowerem
Persian: با دوچرخه رفتن	Pashto: بایسکل	Portuguese: andar de bicicleta
Romanian: a merge cu bicicleta	Russian: ездить на велосипеде	Slovak: ísť na bicykli
Slovenian: kolesariti	Serbian: voziti bicikl	Swedish: cykla
Thai: ขี่จักรยาน	Turkish: bisiklete binmek, bisikle	Taiwanese: 騎自行車
Ukrainian: їздити на велосипеді	Urdu: سائيكل كى سوارى كرنا، سائ	Vietnamese: đi xe đạp
Chinese: 骑自行车
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