Cyclic

//ˈsaɪ.klɪk//

"Cyclic" in a Sentence (11 examples)

This is a cyclic topic.

Life's nature is cyclic.

In helicopters, the cyclic controls the tilt of the main rotor, producing pitch and roll.

If you like cosmology, maybe read the document "Inter-universal entanglement in a cyclic multiverse."

The team said the central structure of the nanotubes contains rings called cyclic peptides.

In general, the area of a quadrilateral cannot be written as a function of its side lengths, but there are exceptions, such as rectangles or more generally cyclic quadrilaterals, whose vertices lie on a common circle.

Electrons in the light dependent reactions enter a cyclic pathway when the ratio of NADPH to NADP+ is high. In other words, when there is more NADPH than NADP+ available, this causes electrons to cycle from the photosystems and cytochrome complex since the electrons do not have anywhere to go. This pathway does not cause the production of NADPH but still causes the production of ATP.

The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.

Our recent article on the York-Knaresborough-Harrogate branch mentioned that the diesel multiple-units covering the passenger service did so in the course of complicated cyclic diagrams.

Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.

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On it came, closer and closer, and as it did so it became clear that the pilot, if he was alive, had terminal intentions. Though the torpedo somehow missed, the plane itself did not. To those watching helplessly from other stations, the ship's antiaircraft gunners, in their final moments, were an inspiration: eyes focused through iron sights on the plane as it sped at them, weapons hot, going cyclic, hunched down and never flinching until the Betty struck high on the mainmast, killing them all.

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