American English pronunciation

How to pronounce periodic

IPA transcription: [,pɪɹi'ɑdɪk]

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Adjective

  • happening or recurring at regular intervals

    “the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust”

Adjective

  • 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.