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What does cyclic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cyclic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals.
  2. (chemistry) Having chains of atoms arranged in a ring.
  3. (botany) Having parts arranged in a whorl.
  4. (mathematics) Being generated by only one element.
  5. (geometry, of a polygon) Able to be inscribed in a circle.
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This action made the situation even worse, because the left cyclic only put us into a sharp angle of bank before impact.
An orientation is acyclic if it contains no directed cycle, and is totally cyclic if every edge is contained in some oriented cycle.
An alicyclic compound is an organic compound that is both aliphatic and cyclic.
Muscle contraction results from the cyclic interaction of the myosin head with actin.
Relative portions of total aliphatics and cyclic triterpenoids in the wax of intact fruits and of enzymatically isolated cuticles.
The system's performance in cyclic tests at the University of California, Berkeley, was also astonishing.

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