Polycycle

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A planar countably locally-finite graph in which all interior vertices have the maximum vertex degree and all interior faces are polygons with the same number of faces.

    "Recall that the cyclicity of a polycycle in a family of equations is the maximal number of limit cycles that may occur from the polycycle in this family."

  2. 2
    A waveform with multiple cycles of the carrier within the pulse envelope.

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"Recall that the cyclicity of a polycycle in a family of equations is the maximal number of limit cycles that may occur from the polycycle in this family."

Etymology

From poly- + cycle.

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