periodic

  1. Adjective.  Relative to a period or periods.
  2. Adjective.  Having repeated cycles.
  3. Adjective.  Occurring at regular intervals.
  4. Adjective.  Pertaining to the revolution of a celestial object in its orbit.
  5. Adjective.  periodical.
  6. Adjective.  (rhetoric) Having a structure characterized by periodic sentences.
  7. Adjective.  (mathematics, stochastic processes) for which any return to it must occur in multiples of k time steps, for some k>1.
  8. Adjective.  Of or derived from a periodic acid.

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