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`cy•cle
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`(sī'kəl) n.
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`An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events
`occurs: Sunspots increase and decrease in intensity in an 11-year cycle.
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`2.
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`a.
`A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon: A year constitutes a cycle of the
`seasons.
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`b.
`A periodically repeated sequence of events: the cycle of birth, growth, and death; a cycle of reprisal and
`retaliation.
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`3.
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`The orbit of a celestial body.
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`4.
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`A long period of time; an age.
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`a.
`The aggregate of traditional poems or stories organized around a central theme or hero: the Arthurian
`cycle.
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`b.
`A series of poems or songs on the same theme: Schubert's song cycles.
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`6.
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`A bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
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`7. Botany
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`A circular or whorled arrangement of flower parts such as those of petals or sepals.
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`8. Baseball
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`The achievement of hitting a single, double, triple, and home run in a single game.
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`v. cy•cled, cy•cling, cy•cles v. intr.
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`1.
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`To occur in or pass through a cycle.
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`2.
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`To move in or as if in a cycle.
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`3.
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`To ride a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
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`v. tr.
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`To use in or put through a cycle: cycled the heavily soiled laundry twice; cycling the recruits through eight
`weeks of basic training.
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`[Middle English , from Late Latin cyclus , from Greek kuklos, circle ; see kw
`(http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/15218602)el- in Indo-European roots.]
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