periodicity

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CIDE DICTIONARY

periodicity, n. [Cf. F. périodicité.].

 The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.  Henfrey.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

periodicity

Indian file, alternation, annual period, array, articulation, bank, baseball season, basketball season, beat, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, cold season, concatenation, concert season, connection, consecution, continuum, course, cycle, cyclicalness, descent, drone, dry season, endless belt, endless round, file, filiation, fluctuation, football season, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, gamut, gradation, harmonic motion, hum, intermittence, intermittency, libration, line, lineage, meter, monotone, nexus, nutation, off season, oscillation, pendulation, pendulum, pendulum motion, period, periodicalness, piston motion, plenum, powder train, progression, pulsation, queue, rainy season, range, rank, reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, resonance, resonance frequency, reticulation, return, rhythm, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, season, seasonableness, seasonality, sequence, series, single file, social season, spectrum, string, succession, swath, the season, thread, tier, time of year, train, undulation, vacillation, vibrancy, vibratility, vibration, wavering, windrow

ROGET THESAURUS

periodicity

Repetition

N repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run, battology, tautology, monotony, tautophony, rhythm, diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy, chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain, rehearsal, rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation, cuckoo, reverberation, drumming, renewal, twice-told tale, old story, old song, second edition, new edition, reappearance, reproduction, recursion, periodicity, repeated, repetitional, repetitionary, recurrent, recurring, ever recurring, thick coming, frequent, incessant, redundant, pleonastic, monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive, unvaried, mocking, chiming, retold, aforesaid, aforenamed, above-mentioned, above-said, habitual, another, repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more, ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo, again and again, over and over, over and over again, recursively, many times over, time and again, time after time, year after year, day by day, many times, several times, a number of times, many a time, full many a time, frequently, ecce iterum Crispinus, toujours perdrix, cut and come again, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, cantilenam eandem canis, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.

Periodicity

N regularity of recurrence, periodicity, intermittence, beat, oscillation, pulse, pulsation, rhythm, alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity, bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say, anniversary, jubilee, centenary, catamenia, courses, menses, menstrual flux, rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine, days of the week, Sunday, Monday, months of the year, January, feast, fast, Christmas, Easter, New Year's day, Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day, All Souls', All Souls' Day, Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day, yearbook, yuletide, punctuality, regularity, steadiness, periodic, periodical, serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical, recurring, intermittent, remittent, alternate, every other, hourly, diurnal, daily, quotidian, tertian, weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary, biweekly, fortnightly, bimonthly, catamenial, monthly, menstrual, yearly, annual, biennial, triennial, centennial, secular, paschal, lenten, regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork, periodically, at regular intervals, at stated times, at fixed established, at established periods, punctually, de die in diem, from day to day, day by day, by turns, in turn, in rotation, alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and tie, round and round.