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The correct spelling is cycles.
How to pronounce cycles
noun
IPA: /ˈsaɪkəlz/
Say it like: Syc-les
The correct spelling is cycles. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed. For example: "the cycle of the seasons, or of the year"
Usage Examples
“the cycle of the seasons, or of the year”
“electoral cycle”
“The interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, G# and C.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- 2.A complete rotation of anything.
- 3.A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- 4.The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- 5.In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
verb
- 1.To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- 2.To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- 3.To turn power off and back on
- 4.To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
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