Thesaurus: cyclic

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1. a. Alt. of Cyclical
2. adj. conforming to the Carnot cycle
3. adj. forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl
4. adj. of a compound having atoms arranged in a ring structure
5. adj. recurring in cycles
6. adj. marked by repeated cycles
7. Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.
8. j:100 a. conforming to the Carnot cycle a. forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl a. of a compound having atoms arranged in a ring structure