Word of the Day - Cycle
cycle
[sahy-kuh l]
noun
1.any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
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.