Phrase Hound found 66 phrases and 60 compound words that contain cycles. The most common are listed below. Open cycles in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 66
- life cyclesplural of life cycle: The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
- business cyclesplural of business cycle: A long-term fluctuation in economic activity between growth and recession.
- cycles per secondplural of cycle per second: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second.
- carrier cyclesplural of carrier cycle: A bicycle or tricycle with a long wheelbase between the front wheel and handlebars holding a large box, originally used solely to transport goods but now also commonly for carrying young children.
- clock cyclesplural of clock cycle: The time between two adjacent pulses of the oscillator that regulates the tempo of the computer processor.
- interval cyclesplural of interval cycle: That which unfolds a single recurrent interval in a series that closes with a return to the initial pitch class.
- limit cyclesplural of limit cycle: A closed trajectory in phase space of a dynamical system having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches minus-infinity.
- moon cyclesplural of moon cycle: The amount of time it takes for the moon to orbit the Earth, usually 29.5 days.
- power-cyclesthird-person singular simple present indicative of power-cycle: To turn a device off and then back on again, usually to restore proper function by forcing a malfunctioning or unresponsive device to reset or reinitialize, or as a step in …
- time cyclesplural of time cycle: A cyclic pattern of events that occur at regular or semiregular intervals.
- lunar cyclesplural of lunar cycle: A Metonic cycle.
- menstrual cyclesplural of menstrual cycle: The recurring cycle of physiological changes in the uninseminated females of some animal species that is associated with reproductive fertility; especially the cycle in a human.
- Hamiltonian cyclesplural of Hamiltonian cycle: A Hamiltonian path with an additional connection between the first and last vertices visited, forming a cycle.
- biogeochemical cyclesplural of biogeochemical cycle: The movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds through the atmosphere, biosphere, and crust.
- estrous cyclesplural of estrous cycle: The repeating physiological changes that are influenced by hormones controlling reproduction in placental mammals other than human beings and greater apes.
- Kuznets cyclesplural of Kuznets cycle: A claimed medium-range economic wave with a period of 15–25 years, associated with demographic processes such as the effect of immigration on construction rates.
- Milankovitch cyclesplural of Milankovitch cycle: Any of the three cyclic variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, respectively the obliquity of its axis, the precession of the equinoxes, and the eccentricity of its orbit.
- Juglar cyclesplural of Juglar cycle: A fixed investment cycle of 7 to 11 years.
- bi-cyclesplural of bi-cycle: A recurring fluctuation in a bisexual person's level of attraction to different genders over time.
- carbon cyclesplural of carbon cycle: The physical cycle of carbon through the Earth’s biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere that includes such processes as photosynthesis, decomposition, respiration and carbonification.
- cell cyclesplural of cell cycle: The life cycle of eukaryotic cells from a quiescent beginning, growth, duplication of DNA followed by mitosis and division.
- cycles offthird-person singular simple present indicative of cycle off: To leave by means of bicycle.
- duty cyclesplural of duty cycle: The ratio between the amount of time in which the clock's signal is high and the clock's period.
- e-cyclesthird-person singular simple present indicative of e-cycle: To recycle or re-use electronic or electrical waste.
- execution cyclesplural of execution cycle: The steps that a central processing unit undertakes in order to process a single instruction, consisting of fetching, decoding, and executing the instruction in question and updating the program counter.
Compound words 60
- motorcyclesplural of motorcycle: An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
- tricyclesplural of tricycle: A cycle with three wheels, powered by pedals and usually intended for young children.
- lifecyclesplural of lifecycle: The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
- unicyclesplural of unicycle: A pedal cycle that only has one wheel.
- heterocyclesplural of heterocycle: A heterocyclic compound or ring.
- handcyclesplural of handcycle: A land vehicle resembling a bicycle or tricycle but powered by the arms rather than the legs.
- epicyclesplural of epicycle: A small circle whose centre is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth.
- aerocyclesplural of aerocycle: A one-man helicopter proposed for use by infantrymen and controlled by shifting one's body weight.
- alicyclesplural of alicycle: Any alicyclic compound
- allocyclesplural of allocycle: A cycle in rock formation whose major forces come from outside the formation via tectonics, volcanism, climate change, or other outside forces, as contrasted with being contained within the formation.