cycle
- 1) noun, a recurring period of time in which certain events or phenomena occur and reach completion or repeat themselves in a regular sequence
- 2) noun, a completed series of events that follows or is followed by another series of similar events occurring in the same sequence
- 3) noun, the time taken or needed for one such series
- 4) noun, a vast period of time; age; aeon
- 5) noun, a group of poems or prose narratives forming a continuous story about a central figure or event
- 6) noun, a series of miracle plays
- 7) noun, a group or sequence of songs (see song cycle)
- 8) noun, short for bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle
- 9) noun, astronomy the orbit of a celestial body
- 10) noun, a recurrent series of events or processes in plants and animals
- 11) noun, physics a continuous change or a sequence of changes in the state of a system that leads to the restoration of the system to its original state after a finite period of time
- 12) noun, one of a series of repeated changes in the magnitude of a periodically varying quantity, such as current or voltage
- 13) noun, computing a) a set of operations that can be both treated and repeated as a unit b) the time required to complete a set of operations c) one oscillation of the regular voltage waveform used to synchronize processes in a digital computer
- 14) noun, (in generative grammar) the set of cyclic rules
- 15) verb, to process through a cycle or system
- 16) verb, to move in or pass through cycles
- 17) verb, to travel by or ride a bicycle or tricycle
Etymology
C14: from Late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos cycle, circle, ring, wheel; see wheel
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
exercise bike or cycle
- 1) noun, a stationary exercise machine that is pedalled like a bicycle as a method of increasing cardiovascular fitness
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