cycle
循环,周期,循环播放,循环往复
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Definitions
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- : any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
- : a round of years or a recurring period of time, especially one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.
- : any long period of years; age.
- : a bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
- : a group of poems, dramas, prose narratives, songs etc., about a central theme, figure, or the like: the Arthurian cycle.
- : Physics. a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a final state identical to the original one.one of a succession of periodically recurring events.a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and minimum value, returning to a final value equal to the original one.
- : Mathematics. a permutation of a set of elements that leaves the original cyclic order of the elements unchanged.
- : Computers. the smallest interval of time required to complete an operation in a computer.a series of computer operations repeated as a unit.
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cy·cled, cy·cling.
- : to ride or travel by bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
- : to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.
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Examples
For years, brands and agencies were caught in a self-defeating cycle, where agencies didn’t pitch gaming ideas to brands because they assumed brands didn’t know what to do with them.
Oftentimes, you can soak your clothing, linen, or other fabrics in a pre-soak cycle, wash, and then enjoy the fresh-scented and stain-free result.
This is just the latest flashpoint in a cycle of delayed elections, public frustration and fraying political legitimacy in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
Our bodies groove to the familiar rhythms of heartbeats and breaths — persistent cycles essential to survival.
This cycle of defensiveness and shame can make it harder to parent in that moment.
It almost mirrors the Buddhist cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
Eventually, the mistletoe bush grows, blooms, and forms berries, and the cycle begins anew.
The Newsroom aired its final episode on Sunday, already an eternity ago in news-cycle terms.
To break her self-destructive cycle and heal, she decides to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo.
Especially given that we just spent almost $4 billion during the 2013-14 election cycle?
The sexual cycle can take place only within the body of one genus of mosquito, anopheles.
Here they enter red corpuscles as young malarial parasites, and the majority pass through the asexual cycle just described.
Still hanging to Clip's canteen, he jerked the motor-cycle away from the bushes, got into the saddle, and started the pedals.
Matt went down, with the motor-cycle on top of him, head and shoulders over the brink of the precipice.
Matt had come to a quick stop, disengaging his right foot from the toe-clip and bracing the motor-cycle upright.