periodicity en · NOUN
Etymology
From French périodicité. By surface analysis, periodic + -ity.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) Recurrence of a woman's periods; menstruation.
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(countable, uncountable) The quality of being periodic; tendency to recur at regular intervals.
The implications of this association of women and the moon would suggest that women were the first observers of the basic periodicity of nature, the periodicity upon which all later scientific observations were made.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 97:A recent wavelet analysis of the turbidity data showed clear periodicities of turbidity in the three Pilbara datasets during both the baseline and dredge phases of the studies (Stark, unublished data) peaking semidiurnally associated with tides, diurnally associated with daily sea breezes and sometimes fortnightly associated with spring-neap cycles.
2015 October 8, “Temporal Patterns in Seawater Quality from Dredging in Tropical Environments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
- (countable, uncountable) The quality of a function with a repeated set of values at regular intervals.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| periodicities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
subperiodicity · photoperiodicity · bioperiodicity · quasiperiodicity · antiperiodicity · multiperiodicity
Relateds
period · periodicize · periodic
Synonyms
Translations (18)
ja 周期性 (property of being periodic) · gl periodicidade (property of being periodic) · ko 주기성 (property of being periodic) · tl pagkaulitin (property of being periodic) · de Periodizität (property of being periodic) · uk періоди́чність (property of being periodic) · cmn 週期性 /周期性 (property of being periodic) · ru периоди́чность (property of being periodic) · da periodisering (property of being periodic) · pl periodyczność (property of being periodic) · fr périodicité (property of being periodic) · pt periodicidade (property of being periodic) · pl okresowość (property of being periodic) · cs periodicita (property of being periodic) · es periodicidad (property of being periodic) · el περιοδικότητα (property of being periodic) · fi jaksollisuus (property of being periodic) · bg периодичност (property of being periodic)