Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cyclist , 2.
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- noun dated
cyclist - noun Anything with a
cyclic (repetitious ) behaviour. Something thatcycles between different states. - noun astronomy An
orbit that approaches two astronomical bodies on a regular basis. - noun by extension A, usually
man-made , object that follows such an orbit. - noun psychology, euphemistic a person with
bipolar disorder, often used when comparing the speed of mood swings. - noun medicine A device for performing
dialysis ; for mechanicallypurifying blood - noun biochemistry a
thermal cycler ; a machine for creating multiple copies ofDNA sequences. - noun computing a
task in acycle of tasks where the status of being active task is passed around theloop .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Schroeder cycler is initially accelerated from the Earth or a colony star to some percentage of lightspeed.
Boing Boing: December 30, 2001 - January 5, 2002 Archives 2001
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The cycler is a machine that does the dialysis for them in the privacy of their own home.
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Maybe I missed it but I do not see the cost for development and life cycle cost estimates for an architecture that involves an aerobraking ( "cycler" I assume) vehicle, with Earth-LEO shuttles.
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The lab launched with about $35,000 in funding from volunteers and has relied on donated equipment, including a thermal cycler that copies DNA sequences.
'Biohackers' Get Their Own Space to Create Pui-Wing Tam 2012
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She has been on hemo, but has just started on PD with a cycler.
dialysis info 2009
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She has been on hemo, but has just started on PD with a cycler.
dialysis info 2009
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Alberto Contador, another Spanish cycler who Tondo succeeded last month in the Tour of Castilla y Leon, posted to Twitter, How unfair life is and how difficult to understand at times.
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She has been on hemo, but has just started on PD with a cycler.
dialysis info 2009
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This would allow us to have an ion cycler for heavy payloads to extend the architecture and private enterprise could build it.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch 2009
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I shoved the dishes in the ` cycler, and headed to my car.
365 tomorrows » To Sleep, Perchance… : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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