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Relative to a period or periods. examples
Having repeated cycles. quotations examples
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
Occurring at regular intervals. examples
Periodical. examples
(astronomy) Pertaining to the revolution of a celestial object in its orbit. examples
(mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) For which any return to it must occur in multiples of k time steps, for some k > 1 . examples
(rhetoric) Having a structure characterized by periodic sentences. examples
Relating to the highest oxidation state of iodine; of or derived from a periodic acid. examples