Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or state of being periodic; recurrence at regular intervals.
- n. The repetition of similar properties in chemical elements, as indicated by their positioning in the periodic table.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Periodic character; habitual tendency or disposition to recur at stated intervals of time.
- n. In physical, the number of recurrences of a periodic motion, such as a vibration, in a unit of time; specifically, in electricity, the number of complete periods or cycles per second of an alternating or oscillating current: same as frequency. The usual electrical frequencies are 25 and 60 in the United States and 50 in Europe.
- n. In botany, the habit in a plant of adjusting its growth or the movements of its organs to regular changes in conditions (of light, heat, etc.), either annual or diurnal. Periodicity is also exhibited in some spontaneous movements not correlated with time of day or season. See phenology, sleep, 5, sensitive-plant, and periodic movement.
Wiktionary
- n. Recurrence of a woman's periods; menstruation.
- n. The quality of being periodic; tendency to recur at regular intervals.
- n. mathematics The quality of a function with a repeated set of values at regular intervals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of recurring at regular intervals
Etymologies
- From French périodicité (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Doppler shift periodicity is short and stronger.”
If the Earth is Rare, We May Not Hear from ET | Universe Today
“4 There may be a longer term periodicity associated with troposheric temperatures, or 1998 marks the onset of a long period of warming.”
“Thomas Gradgrind, a man of facts and calculations, spoke as a representative of what modern philosophers would characterise, in the context of what is described as periodicity, as the modern age.”
“There is what is called periodicity in history; in every period what were the norms during that historical period?”
“Thus, the periodicity of the rate of consumption of prose-fiction corresponds with the periodicity which is found to occur in the conception rate and in sexual ecbolic manifestations.”
“Functional equation: A relation between the values of a function at different points, such as periodicity or symmetry.”
“There are many phenomenon which appear periodic, but which are actually random - I'm sure you could come up with a "periodicity" of volcanic eruptions using time series analysis as well.”
“Disadvantages: • Small loss in sampling precision • Potential "periodicity" problems”
“periodicity' of the phenomenon, and no idea seems to have been entertained of the connection existing between the fall of shooting stars and the recurrence of certain days, until the prodigious swarm of shooting stars which occurred in North America between the 12th and 13th of November, 1833, and was observed by Olmsted and Palmer.”
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“See, this function uses the wave height and periodicity to predict structural failure.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘periodicity’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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big book gre
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A Matter Of Time
Favorite time-related words.
vespertine, twilight, gloaming, eftsoon, eventide, dawn, eos, dusk, witching hour, ephemeral, candlemark, autumnal and 122 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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simple & useful15
handsomely, fleshed-out, perpetually, consorting, blood relation, cubistic, implausibly, tom swifties, coiffed, progeny, deconstructed, humdrum and 93 more...
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bioinformatics and bioengineering words
What happens when you put a (former) English major at a bioinformatics and bioengineering summer institute? A list of wacky bio-words, of course!
proteomics, genomics, contig, dinucleotide, spectrometry, fovea, metagenomics, peptide, phylogenetics, protozoan, heterocyst, intracellular and 73 more...
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Lowry
nutant, meed, donga, mephitic, punk, caliginous, cauchemar, horripilation, hyacinthine, corposant, counterscarp, garboon and 65 more...
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GOOD WORDS
Words that have reverberations for me
Serenity, Synchronicity, somnolence, periodicity, antidisestablishm..., noisome
Tweets
Looking for tweets for periodicity.
yarb ...the interminably slow periodicity of the cycles of these lake tides.
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola Jul 30, 2008