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- Periodical - a. - Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
- Periodical - a. - Performed in a period, or regular revolution; proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical motion of the planets round the sun.
- Periodical - a. - Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics.
- Periodical - a. - Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence.
- Periodical - n. - A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.
- Periodicalist - n. - One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.
- Periodically - adv. - In a periodical manner.
- Periodicalness - n. - Periodicity.
- Bulletin - n. - A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.
- Quarterly - n. - A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year.
- Circuit - n. - The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
- Limbat - n. - A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.
- Journalism - n. - The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals or newspapers; as, political journalism.
- Proleptical - a. - Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
- Journal - a. - A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.
- Megrim - n. - A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.
- Rhythm - n. - Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.
- 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.
- Ticketing - n. - A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
- Aberration - n. - A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.
- Nilometer - n. - An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
- Ephemeris - n. - A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature.
- Exacerbation - n. - A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.
- Monsoon - n. - A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.
- Saturn - n. - One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
- Oestrus - n. - A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.
- Subeditor - n. - An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal.
- Assize - n. - The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.
- Review - n. - A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.
- Rent - n. - A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
- Periodical - a. - Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics.
- Roll - v. i. - To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
- Periodically - adv. - In a periodical manner.
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