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Bible Dictionaries
Cycle
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
(2):
(n.) An age; a long period of time.
(3):
(v. i.) To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.
(4):
(n.) An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.
(5):
(n.) A complete positive and negative wave of an alternating current; one period. The number of cycles (per second) is a measure of the frequency of an alternating current.
(6):
(n.) A series of operations in which heat is imparted to (or taken away from) a working substance which by its expansion gives up a part of its internal energy in the form of mechanical work (or being compressed increases its internal energy) and is again brought back to its original state.
(7):
(n.) The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.
(8):
(n.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
(9):
(n.) A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.
(10):
(n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
(11):
(v. i.) To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cycle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/cycle.html. 1828.