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- noun uncountable The state of
recurring atregular intervals ; of beingcyclic . - noun countable An instance of cyclic behaviour.
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- noun the quality of recurring at regular intervals
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Examples
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Although the mechanism of how monsoon drives oceanic carbon cycle remains unclear, the monsoon-related long-term cyclicity should not be overlooked in carbon-cycle modeling for long-term climate prediction.
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Monsoon is a global system, and many arrays of evidence indicate that it drives long-term cyclicity of the carbon reservoir in the global ocean.
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Such cyclicity is a feature of several other recent speculative cosmological models, including some in which the Big Bang is just one of a sequence of collisions among multidimensional membranes or "branes."
In the End Is the Beginning Peter Woit 2011
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Many Asian traditions emphasise cyclicity, rather than linear temporal change, for example.
INTERVIEW: Michael Hanlon, Author of Eternity, Our Next Billion Years 2009
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Note also that Kuhlmann conflates an irreducible group representation with a cyclic representation; irreducibility is not the same thing as cyclicity.
Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Causes of cyclicity of '' Epirrita autumnata '' (Lepidoptera, Geometridae): grandiose theory and tedious practice.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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In long qualitative time series (up to 100 years), periods with loss of cyclicity and synchrony are evident [148], but it is unclear whether this is related to fluctuations in climate.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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The autumnal moth (Epirrita autumnata) shows cyclicity in its populations and outbreak proportions occur approximately every 10 to 11 years.
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Pliocene-Pleistocene ice rafting history and cyclicity in the Nordic Seas during the last 3.5 Myr.
Variability in hydrographic properties and currents in the Arctic 2009
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Thus it represents the cyclicity of time and the lunar cycle in particular, which both Jewish and other traditions identify with the female.
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