Thesaurus: cyclical
Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
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Definitions
- a. Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
- adj. recurring in cycles
- 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.
- j:100 a recurring in cycles