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.
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Periodicity
Synonyms for "periodicity" (115 found)
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Noun(1 words)
alternationannual periodarrayarticulationbankbaseball seasonbasketball seasonbeatbuzzcatenacatenationchainchain reactionchainingcold seasonconcatenationconcert seasonconnectionconsecutioncontinuum
Strong matches (35)
Noun(2 words)
cyclelevel of regularity
cyclicalnessdescentdronedry seasonendless beltendless roundfilefiliationfluctuationflywheel effectfootball seasonfrequencyfrequency bandfrequency spectrumgamutgradationharmonic motionhumindian fileintermittence
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intermittencylibrationlinelineagemetermonotonenexusnutationoff seasonoscillationpendulationpendulumpendulum motion
Related words (57)
periodperiodicalnesspiston motionplenumpowder trainprogressionpulsationqueuerainy seasonrangerankreappearancerecurrenceregular wave motionreoccurrenceresonanceresonance frequencyreticulationreturnrhythm
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rotationroundroutinerowrunscaleseasonseasonablenessseasonalitysequenceseriessingle filesocial seasonspectrumstringsuccessionswaththe seasonthreadtiertime of yeartrainundulationvacillationvibrancyvibratilityvibrationwaveringwindrow
Noun(8 words)
recurrenceregularityregularity descriptionrepeat patternrepetitionseasonal regularityweeklinessyearliness
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6 entriesannual periodicitycosine periodicitydaily periodicityseasonal periodicitysine periodicitytrigonometric periodicity
Collocations
5 entriesannual periodicitydaily periodicitydegree of periodicitymathematical periodicityseasonal periodicity
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A recent wavelet analysis of the turbidity data showed clear periodicities of turbidity in the three Pilbara datasets during both the baseline and dredge phases of the studies (Stark, unublished data) peaking semidiurnally associated with tides, diurnally associated with daily sea breezes and sometimes fortnightly associated with spring-neap cycles.
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