cyclical
/ˈsɪklɪk(ə)l
/adjective
Occurring in cycles; recurrent: the cyclical nature of the cement industry...
- Variations in exports are expected to be sufficient in order to cope with the cyclical ups and downs in production.
- No doubt some of that decline is a cyclical response to the giant surge in the late 1990s.
- The two main components of spending that tend to be the most volatile and cyclical are investment and exports.
Synonyms
recurrent, recurring, happening at regular intervals, regular, repeated, repetitive;
periodic, seasonal, circular
Derivatives
cyclically
/ /ˈsʌɪklɪk(ə)li / adverb ...- People first worshipped the earth and the sun because they were the magical entities which cyclically provided for their needs.
- In women, many hormones in the blood and urine are cyclically altered under the influence of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis.
- REM sleep occurs cyclically every 90 minutes during the night in association with high brain activity, rapid spontaneous eye movements and suppressed voluntary motor activity.
- to say nothing of
- to say the least (of it)
- to scale
- Toscana
- Toscanini, Arturo
- to scream (also cry, yell,etc.) blue murder
- to seek
- tosh
- to size
- Tosk
- to someone's cost
- to spare
- toss
- toss a pancake
- tosser
- tossing the caber
- toss it in
- toss one's cookies
- tosspot
- toss someone/oneself off (or toss off)
- toss something off
- toss-up
- tostada
- tostado
- to start with