cyclic

adjective more cyclic · most cyclic

1. Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals; cyclical The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.

   Similar: periodic

2. of a compound Having chains of atoms arranged in a ring. Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.
3. Having parts arranged in a whorl.
4. of a group Being generated by only one element.
5. of a polygon Able to be inscribed in a circle.
6. of an automatic weapon Firing at its full cyclic rate. On it came, closer and closer, and as it did so it became clear that the pilot, if he was alive, had terminal intentions. Though the torpedo somehow missed, the plane itself did not. To those watching helplessly from other stations, the ship's antiaircraft gunners, in their final moments, were an in

Opposite: acyclic

noun cyclics

1. The flight control used to control a helicopter's direction and rate of horizontal movement by tilting the lift vector of the helicopter's main rotor disk.

adjective

1. not comparable Of or relating to the Ancient Greek Epic Cycle. Though Haubold avoids speculating on dates and mechanisms of transmission, his genre of cosmic history in Greece depends on the formation of a Hesiodic and Cyclic canon, not long before the sixth century.