cycle

Meanings

Noun

• An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
• A complete rotation of anything.
• A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
• The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
• 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.
• A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
• A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
• A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
• A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
• A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
• A chain whose boundary is zero.
• An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
• An age; a long period of time.
• An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
• One entire round in a circle or a spire.
• A discharge of a taser.
• One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.

Verb

• To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
• To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
• To turn power off and back on
• 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

Origin

• From Middle English cicle, from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος ("circle"), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos ("circle, wheel"). wheel; see there for more.