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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A complete rotation of anything.
  • An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
  • A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike.
  • A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
  • A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
  • A series of poems, songs or other works of art
  • baseball A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
  • graph theory A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.

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Verb:

  • electronics To turn power off and back on
  • icehockey 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
  • To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
  • To ride a cycle.

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