Periodicity
noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Recurrence of a woman's periods; menstruation. countable, uncountable
- 2 the quality of recurring at regular intervals wordnet
- 3 The quality of being periodic; tendency to recur at regular intervals. countable, uncountable
"The implications of this association of women and the moon would suggest that women were the first observers of the basic periodicity of nature, the periodicity upon which all later scientific observations were made."
- 4 The quality of a function with a repeated set of values at regular intervals. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"The implications of this association of women and the moon would suggest that women were the first observers of the basic periodicity of nature, the periodicity upon which all later scientific observations were made."
Etymology
From French périodicité. By surface analysis, periodic + -ity.
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