'cycle, a colloquial name for a bicycle or motorcycle...
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cycle,
–noun
1. any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
2. a round of years or a recurring period of time, esp. one in which
certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at
the same intervals.
3. any long period of years; age.
4. a bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
5. a group of poems, dramas, prose narratives, songs etc., about a
central theme, figure, or the like: the Arthurian cycle.
6. Physics .
a. a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a
final state identical to the original one.
b. one of a succession of periodically recurring events.
c. a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and
minimum value, returning to a final value equal to the original one.
7. Mathematics . a permutation of a set of elements that leaves the
original cyclic order of the elements unchanged.
8. Computers .
a. the smallest interval of time required to complete an operation in
a computer.
b. a series of computer operations repeated as a unit.
–verb (used without object)
9. to ride or travel by bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
10. to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.
—Idiom
11. hit for the cycle, Baseball . (of one player) to hit a single,
double, triple, and home run in one game.
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