Another word for periodical
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Adjective
Happening or appearing at regular intervals
- Occurring or appearing again or repeatedly.
- Turning in a reverse direction. Used of blood vessels and nerves.
- Having or marked by repeated cycles:
- Happening or appearing regularly or from time to time:
- Characterized by periodic sentences.
- Time dependent. Real-time voice, video and telemetry are examples of isochronous data.
- Equal in duration.
- Characterized by or occurring at equal intervals of time.
- cyclic
- tending to rise and fall in line with the fluctuations of the business cycle
- Of, relating to, or characterized by cycles:
- Recurring or moving in cycles:
- Of or relating to compounds having atoms arranged in a ring or closed-chain structure.
Idioms:See also:Happening or appearing now and then
- Occurring at irregular intervals or in isolated or scattered places; having no pattern or order:
- Having or marked by repeated cycles:
- Happening or appearing regularly or from time to time:
- Characterized by periodic sentences.
- Occurring, encountered, done, or taken from time to time; irregular or infrequent.
- Created for a special occasion:
- Intended for use as the occasion requires:
- Stopping and starting at intervals.
- Alternately containing and empty of water:
- Occurring in or characterized by intermittent bursts, as of activity; irregular:
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Another word for periodical
Modifier
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- Of or relating to an age or period of 100 years.
- Occurring once every 100 years:
- Of or relating to a 100th anniversary.
- Lasting an indefinitely long time; enduring:
- Appearing again and again or year after year; recurrent:
- Living three or more years.
- Recurring, done, or performed every year; yearly:
- Of, relating to, or determined by a year:
- Living or growing for only one year or season.
- Occurring once a year or every year.
- Once a year; annually.
- A publication issued once a year.
- Occurring, appearing, or coming due every month:
- Continuing or lasting for a month.
- Once a month; every month.
- Once a week.
- Every week.
- By the week.
- Of or occurring during the day.
- Happening or done every day:
- Computed or assessed for each day:
- Occurring every hour:
- Frequent; continual:
- By the hour as a unit:
- Of, forming, or arranged in a series.
- Published or produced in installments, as a novel or television drama.
- Relating to such publication or production.
- To occur in a successive manner:
- To act or proceed by turns:
- To pass back and forth from one state, action, or place to another:
- Stopping and starting at intervals.
- Alternately containing and empty of water:
- Present participle of recur.
- Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
- (mathematics) Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
- Occurring or appearing again or repeatedly.
- Turning in a reverse direction. Used of blood vessels and nerves.
- Resembling or characteristic of a pendulum; having a back-and-forth motion.
- Of or relating to an orbit.
- The wave function of an electron in an atom or molecule, indicating the electron's probable location.
- Present participle of fluctuate.
- cyclic
- tending to rise and fall in line with the fluctuations of the business cycle
- Of, relating to, or characterized by cycles:
- Recurring or moving in cycles:
- Of or relating to compounds having atoms arranged in a ring or closed-chain structure.
- Customary, usual, or normal:
- Orderly, even, or symmetrical:
- In conformity with a fixed procedure, principle, or discipline.
- Of, relating to, or having rhythm; recurring with measured regularity.
- Having or marked by repeated cycles:
- Happening or appearing regularly or from time to time:
- Characterized by periodic sentences.
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Noun
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- The act or process of publishing matter in print or electronic form.
- An issue of printed or electronic matter, such as a book or magazine, offered for distribution or sale.
- Communication of information to the public:
- A member of the set of positive integers; one of a series of symbols of unique meaning in a fixed order that can be derived by counting.
- A member of any of the following sets of mathematical objects: integers, rational numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers. These sets can be derived from the positive integers through various algebraic and analytic constructions.
- Arithmetic.
- To look over, study, or examine again:
- To consider retrospectively; look back on:
- To examine with an eye to criticism or correction:
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