Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as cyclist, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. dated cyclist
- n. Anything with a cyclic (repetitious) behaviour. Something that cycles between different states.
- n. astronomy An orbit that approaches two astronomical bodies on a regular basis.
- n. by extension A, usually man-made, object that follows such an orbit.
- n. psychology, euphemistic a person with bipolar disorder, often used when comparing the speed of mood swings.
- n. medicine A device for performing dialysis; for mechanically purifying blood
- n. biochemistry a thermal cycler; a machine for creating multiple copies of DNA sequences.
- n. computing a task in a cycle of tasks where the status of being active task is passed around the loop.
Etymologies
- From cycle + -er; someone that uses a cycle (or bicycle) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Schroeder cycler is initially accelerated from the Earth or a colony star to some percentage of lightspeed.”
“The cycler is a machine that does the dialysis for them in the privacy of their own home.”
“Maybe I missed it but I do not see the cost for development and life cycle cost estimates for an architecture that involves an aerobraking ( "cycler" I assume) vehicle, with Earth-LEO shuttles.”
“Alberto Contador, another Spanish cycler who Tondo succeeded last month in the Tour of Castilla y Leon, posted to Twitter, How unfair life is and how difficult to understand at times.”
The Huffington Post: Xavier Tondo Dead: Tour De France Cyclist Dies At 32
“She has been on hemo, but has just started on PD with a cycler.”
“This would allow us to have an ion cycler for heavy payloads to extend the architecture and private enterprise could build it.”
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch
“The lab launched with about $35,000 in funding from volunteers and has relied on donated equipment, including a thermal cycler that copies DNA sequences.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Biohackers' Get Their Own Space to Create
“I shoved the dishes in the ` cycler, and headed to my car.”
365 tomorrows » To Sleep, Perchance… : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
““Well, I wanted the thermal cycler that works faster, but Thermo gave me these cool pens.” pseudonymous in nc Says:”
“My concept for a cycling spaceship, now universally called the Aldrin cycler, could be fashioned out of the XM.”
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