Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The streaming rotary motion of protoplasm within certain cells and one-celled organisms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoöl., physiol., and botany, circulation, as of blood or other fluid: in zoölogy, especially applied to the currents in which circulate the finely granular protoplasmic substances in Protozoa, Infusoria, etc., as within the body of members of the genus Paramecium, and the pseudopods of foraminifers; in botany, originally, to the movement occasionally observable in the latex of plants, now to the streaming movement of protoplasm within the cell.
- noun In physical, the existence of cycles.
- noun In mathematics, the occurrence of closed paths.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
circulation ofprotoplasm within acell
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, from Greek kuklōsis, a surrounding, from kukloun, to surround, from kuklos, circle; see kwel- in Indo-European roots.]
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ruzuzu commented on the word cyclosis
I like this one from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: "In mathematics, the occurrence of closed paths."
October 16, 2015