Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being periodical; periodicity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Periodicity.
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- noun
periodicity
Etymologies
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Examples
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So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the Sperm Whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated, then the migrations of the Sperm Whale would be found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
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So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the sperm whale’s resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
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