Periodic

Quick meaning: Periodic is an adjective meaning Relative to a period or periods.

Meaning

Relative to a period or periods.

More Meanings

1. Having repeated cycles.
2. Occurring at regular intervals.
3. Periodical.
4. (astronomy) Pertaining to the revolution of a celestial object in its orbit.
5. (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) For which any return to it must occur in multiples of k time steps, for some k>1.
6. (rhetoric) Having a structure characterized by periodic sentences.
7. Relating to the highest oxidation state of iodine; of or derived from a periodic acid.

Example Sentences

There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”

That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets.

Synonyms for periodic

Depending on context, synonyms include cyclic, cyclical, periodical, regular, sporadic, oscillating.

Antonyms for periodic

Common opposites include acyclical, irregular, non-periodic, aperiodic, nonperiodic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intermittent, cyclic, sporadic, oscillating, oscillatory, periodical.

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