periodic

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  1. adjective Having or marked by repeated cycles.
  2. adjective Happening or appearing at regular intervals.
  3. adjective Recurring or reappearing from time to time; intermittent.
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  • Blogging thrives on the periodic, the recurring, the ongoing, and Morrison has supplied a steady stream of material for as long as there has been a comics blogosphere. —  I Am NOT the Beastmaster
  • This transformation of law and politics is also bound up with a capitalist dynamic which can be described as a periodic interplay between a functionally driven opening followed in each instance by a socially integrative closure at a higher level. —  signandsight.com
  • Commissioner Thomas Mazzucco called the periodic briefings for the mayor a "great business decision." —  SFGate: Top News Stories
  • This observation leads the authors to conclude that the source is not truly periodic, but it exhibits quasi-periodic features similar to those observed in Galactic black holes. —  ESA Science & Technology
  • Readers of OttawaWatch will recall my periodic references to Smith and his close family ties to the Canadian evangelical community. —  Canadian Christianity - Canadian News
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frequent ·  monthly ·  ongoing ·  successive ·  subsequent ·  nightly ·  periodical ·  intermittent ·  seasonal ·  impending ·  sporadic ·  random
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  1. from Old French periodic, French périodique = Spanish periódico = Portuguese Italian periodico = Dutch periodiek (cf.G. periodisch = Danish Swedish periodisk), from Latin periodicus, from Greek περιοδικός, coming round at certain times, periodic, from περίοδος, a going round, a period: see period.
  2. per- + iodic.
 

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