Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • At stated or regularly recurring intervals: as, a festival celebrated periodically.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a periodical manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a regular periodic manner
  • adverb intermittently

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a sporadic manner

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

periodic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • So, what I'm going to do, periodically, is feature a video that I had not seen until discovering Rutter's list.

    Archive 2009-03-15 Tyler 2009

  • So, what I'm going to do, periodically, is feature a video that I had not seen until discovering Rutter's list.

    Apparently, I don't spend enough time on the Internet Tyler 2009

  • Tim Gardner will be checking in periodically up until the tournament and will debate the picks out with you.

    As bubble takes turn, Illinois, others left outside looking in 2010

  • Tim Gardner will be checking in periodically up until the tournament and will debate the picks out with you.

    Wild final weekend puts the Dance's field of 65 into focus 2009

  • He had been mostly uninvolved throughout the year, checking in periodically while focusing on health care, Wall Street and simultaneously running the Senate and running for reelection.

    Harry Reid, The Man Who Never Says Goodbye The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • He called periodically to assure me how hard the two of you were working.

    Tough Customer Sandra Brown 2010

  • He called periodically to assure me how hard the two of you were working.

    Tough Customer Sandra Brown 2010

  • We have a nasty sewer gas odour that oozes periodically from the kitchen drain at the National Historic Site where I work.

    Archive 2008-03-01 The Nag 2008

  • Another way these are useful is that if you check in periodically and keep track of the results, you can see how your score fluctuates and try to correlate its delta with any credit-related actions you took during that time.

    5 No BS Ways To Get A Credit Score For Free - The Consumerist 2008

  • I imagine that Facebook Connect will work by “leasing” or “sharing” information to remote sites and require, through agreement and compliance with their terms, to check in periodically (or to receive directives through a push mechanism) for changes to data, and then to flush caches of stored data every 24 hours or less.

    Thoughts on dynamic privacy | FactoryCity 2008

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