Definitions for: Cyclic

[adj] recurring in cycles
[adj] chemistry; having atoms arranged in a ring structure
[adj] botany; forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl; "cyclic petals"; "cyclic flowers"
[adj] marked by repeated cycles
[adj] (thermodynamics) conforming to the Carnot cycle

Webster (1913) Definition: Cyc"lic (s?k"l?k or s?"kl?k), Cyclical Cyc"lic*al
(s?k"l?-kal), a. [Cf. F. cycluque, Gr. kykliko`s, fr. ky`klos
See Cycle.]
Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as,
cyclical time. --Coleridge.

Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and
dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round
the altar of Bacchus in a circle.

Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and
wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so
called because keeping within the circle of a single
subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on
one subject. --Milman.

Synonyms: alternate(a), alternating(a), bicyclic, circular, closed-chain, closed-ring, cyclical, diurnal, every other(a), heterocyclic, homocyclic, isocyclic, periodic, periodical, verticillate, verticillated, whorled

Antonyms: acyclic, noncyclic, noncyclical, open-chain

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