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English

Etymology

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?ék?los (“circle, wheel”). Doublet of wheel; see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?k?l/
• Rhymes: -a?k?l

Noun

cycle (plural cycles)

1. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
   • 1795, Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity

     Wages […] bear a full proportion […] to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.

2. A complete rotation of anything.
3. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
4. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
5. (music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.

6. A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.

7. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.

8. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.

   Hyponyms: motorbike, motorcycle, unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, motortrike

9. (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.

10. (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
11. (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
12. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)

13. An age; a long period of time.
    • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall

      Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

14. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
15. (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)

16. (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
    • 2014, R.T. Wyant, Thomas Burns, Risk Management of Less Lethal Options, CRC Press (?ISBN), page 211:

      Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.

17. (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.

Usage notes

• (baseball sense): As in the example sentence, one is usually said to hit for the cycle. However, other uses also occur, such as hit a cycle and complete the cycle.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (saikuru)

Translations

Verb

cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)

1. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
2. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
3. (electronics) To turn power off and back on

   Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.

4. (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal

   They have their cycling game going tonight.

Related terms

• recycle

Translations

Anagrams

• leccy

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Late Latin cyclus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sikl/

Noun

cycle m (plural cycles)

1. cycle
2. (Switzerland) middle school, junior high school

Derived terms

• cycle de l'eau
• cycle du carbone

Further reading

• “cycle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

cycle

1. vocative singular of cyclus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?k(?)l??/
• Hyphenation: cy?cling

Verb

cycling

1. present participle of cycle

Noun

cycling (countable and uncountable, plural cyclings)

1. (uncountable) The activity of riding cycles, especially bicycles (for transport, sport, physical exercise, recreation, tourism...)

   Synonym: biking

2. (uncountable) The sport of riding and racing cycles, especially bicycles.

   In all my years as a cycling fan, I've never seen a breakaway like this.

   Synonym: cycle sport, Synonym: race cycling

3. (countable) Any cyclic action or process

   Synonym: (rare) cyclism

Translations

Adjective

cycling (not comparable)

1. That undergoes a cyclic motion or process

Further reading

• cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia