periodicity

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periodicity

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From French périodicité. By surface analysis, periodic + -ity.

noun periodicities

  1. countable, uncountable Recurrence of a woman's periods; menstruation.
  2. countable, uncountable The quality of being periodic; tendency to recur at regular intervals. The implications of this association of women and the moon would suggest that women were the first observers of the basic periodicity of nature, the periodicity upon which all later scientific observations were made.

    Similar: cyclicity

  3. countable, uncountable The quality of a function with a repeated set of values at regular intervals.

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noun property of being periodic

Españolperiodicidad
한국어주기성 jugiseong
日本語周期性 shūkisei
中文週期性 /周期性 zhōuqīxìng
Portuguêsperiodicidade
Françaispériodicité
DeutschPeriodizität
Ελληνικάπεριοδικότητα periodikótita
Русскийпериоди́чность periodíčnostʹ

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@misc{periodicity_2026,
  title = {periodicity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/periodicity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}