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Definition of Periodicity
1. Noun. The quality of recurring at regular intervals.
Generic synonyms: Regularity
Specialized synonyms: Regular Recurrence, Rhythm
Attributes: Cyclic, Cyclical, Noncyclic, Noncyclical
Derivative terms: Cyclic, Cyclic, Periodic
Definition of Periodicity
1. n. The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.
Definition of Periodicity
1. Noun. Recurrence of a woman's periods; menstruation. ¹
2. Noun. The quality of being periodic; tendency to recur at regular intervals. ¹
3. Noun. (mathematics) The quality of a function with a repeated set of values at regular intervals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Periodicity
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Medical Definition of Periodicity
1. The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. Origin: Cf. F. Periodicite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Periodicity
Literary usage of Periodicity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The criterion of periodicity brought forward by Gen. Strachey will appear from
what follows. The mean rainfall at Madras for the sixty-four years is 48*51 ..."
2. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"We thus arrive at the conclusion that a daily periodicity in longitudinal ...
Among the phenomena of yearly periodicity the resting period, seen in trees ..."
3. Elements of the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable: With Especial by Heinrich Durège (1896)
"55 represents a triply connected surface ; let the cross-cuts be ab and cd, and
let the moduli of periodicity for the same be Al and A& respectively, ..."
4. Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases by Thomas Smith Clouston (1904)
"Physiological alternations and periodicity ; the law of " action and
reaction''—Reproductive and sexual periodicity, with their mental changes of periodic ..."
5. Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable by Andrew Russell Forsyth (1893)
"A third function u, can then be obtained, with o)3jl, o)3i2 a>3,2p as its
arbitrarily assigned moduli of periodicity, which are not the moduli of k^ + ..."
6. The Sun by Charles Augustus Young (1895)
"Proposed Explanations of periodicity.—Connection between Sun-Spots and Terrestrial
Magnetism.—Remarkable Solar Disturbances and Magnetic Stormi. ..."
7. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"periodicity of light and periodicity of movement, iv. ... Temperature and periodicity.
Change of fronds. South temperate seas. v. The Antic Benthos. ..."
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