cycle : Idioms & Phrases

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business cycle

  • noun recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline
    business cycle.
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Calippic cycle

  • a period of 76 years, or four Metonic cycles; so called from Calippus, who proposed it as an improvement on the Metonic cycle.
Webster 1913

carbon cycle

  • noun the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again
  • noun a thermonuclear reaction in the interior of stars
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cardiac cycle

  • noun the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next; an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles
    • the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram
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carnot cycle

  • noun a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat
    Carnot cycle.
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carnot's ideal cycle

  • noun a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat
    Carnot cycle.
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citric acid cycle

  • noun in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy
    citric acid cycle; Krebs cycle; Krebs citric acid cycle.
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Cycle of eclipses

  • a priod of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; called Saros by the Chaldeans.
Webster 1913

Cycle of indiction

  • a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors.
Webster 1913

cycle of rebirth

  • noun (Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms
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Cycle of the moon, ∨ Metonic cycle

  • a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; so called from Meton, who first proposed it.
Webster 1913

Cycle of the sun, Solar cycle

  • a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also called the cycle of the Sunday letter. In the Gregorian calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the end of the century.
Webster 1913

cycle on

  • verb come to the starting point of a cycle
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cycle per second

  • noun the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second
    Hz; cycles/second; hertz; cps; cycle.
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cycle rickshaw

  • noun a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire
    pedicab.
    • boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs
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dune cycling

  • noun bicycling or motorcycling on sand dunes
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fixed-cycle operation

  • noun an operation that is completed in a specified number of regularly timed execution cycles
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food cycle

  • noun (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
    food web.
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krebs citric acid cycle

  • noun in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy
    citric acid cycle; Krebs cycle; Krebs citric acid cycle.
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krebs cycle

  • noun in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy
    citric acid cycle; Krebs cycle; Krebs citric acid cycle.
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life cycle

  • noun a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
  • noun the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
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Lunar cycle

  • . Same as Metonic cycle. See under Cycle.
Webster 1913

menstrual cycle

  • noun a recurring cycle (beginning at menarche and ending at menopause) in which the endometrial lining of the uterus prepares for pregnancy; if pregnancy does not occur the lining is shed at menstruation
    • the average menstrual cycle is 28 days
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Metonic cycle ∨ year

  • . (Astron.) See under Cycle.
Webster 1913

nitrogen cycle

  • noun the circulation of nitrogen; nitrates from the soil are absorbed by plants which are eaten by animals that die and decay returning the nitrogen back to the soil
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Solar cycle

  • . See under Cycle.
Webster 1913

trade cycle

  • noun recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline
    business cycle.
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tricarboxylic acid cycle

  • noun in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy
    citric acid cycle; Krebs cycle; Krebs citric acid cycle.
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vicious cycle

  • noun one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first
    vicious circle.
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