Cyclic /(s?k"l?k [or] s?"kl?k)/
Cyc·lic
Cyclic
a.
- Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
- Having atoms bonded to form a ring structure. Opposite of acyclic. (Chemistry)
- Recurring in cycles{2}; having a pattern that repeats at approximately equal intervals; periodic. Opposite of noncyclic.
- Marked by repeated cycles{2}.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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.