cycle

Signification

Noun

1. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
2. A complete rotation of anything.
3. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
4. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
5. In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
6. A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
7. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
8. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
9. A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
10. A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
11. A chain whose boundary is zero.
12. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
13. An age; a long period of time.
14. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
15. One entire round in a circle or a spire.
16. A discharge of a taser.
17. One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
18. A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.

Verb

1. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
2. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
3. To turn power off and back on
4. To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal

Coupé comme

cyc‧le

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsaɪ.kəl/

Étymologie

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of cyclus and wheel (see there for more).