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- Cycle - n. - An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- Cycle - n. - An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.
- Cycle - n. - An age; a long period of time.
- Cycle - n. - An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- Cycle - n. - The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.
- Cycle - n. - One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
- Cycle - n. - A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.
- Cycle - v. i. - To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.
- Cycle - v. i. - To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.
- Cycled - imp. & p. p. - of Cycle
- Phase - n. - A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon.
- Metamorphosis - n. - A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into final and sexually developed forms, from the union of which organisms are produced which pass through the same cycle of changes. See Transformation.
- Cycle - n. - An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.
- Indiction - n. - A cycle of fifteen years.
- Cycle - v. i. - To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.
- Aecidium - n. - A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.
- Cyclical - a. - Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
- Homogenesis - n. - That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.
- Mean - a. - Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.
- Cycle - n. - One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
- Plasmodium - n. - A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.
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