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Adjective
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happening or recurring at regular intervals
“the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust”
Adjective
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recurring or reappearing from time to time
“periodic feelings of anxiety”
Usage examples
- Periodic points are important in the theory of dynamical systems.
- Ludlam was a periodic visitor to the Australian colony of New South Wales.
- Wavetable synthesis is fundamentally based on periodic reproduction of an arbitrary, single-cycle waveform.
- The Kelly Church still stands and is the site of periodic festivities.
- Note that "periodic fever" can also refer to any of the periodic fever syndromes.
- A volunteer group called the Friends of Rose Creek conducts periodic cleanups.
- The water is usually supplied by manually filling the unit on a periodic basis.
- Nodder illustrated George Shaw's periodical "The Naturalist's Miscellany".
- The periodic cicada "Magicicada cassini "is also named for him.
- Hence the magnitude response of the comb filter is periodic.