"cyclical" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈsaɪklɪkəl/, /ˈsɪklɪkəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cyclical.wav Forms: more cyclical [comparative], most cyclical [superlative]
Etymology: From cyclic + -al. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kʷel-}}, {{af|en|cyclic|-al}} cyclic + -al Head templates: {{en-adj}} cyclical (comparative more cyclical, superlative most cyclical)
  1. recurring at regular intervals Synonyms: cyclic, periodic, cyclic, cyclical, periodic, periodical, regular Translations (recurring at regular intervals — see also cyclic): syklinen (Finnish), jaksoittainen (Finnish), zyklisch (German), rialta (Irish), féiltiúil (Irish), چرخهای (čarxe-'i) (Persian), cearclach (Scottish Gaelic), cíclico (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-cyclical-en-adj-hMaC08py Disambiguation of 'recurring at regular intervals — see also cyclic': 72 28
  2. (botany) Rolled up circularly.
    Sense id: en-cyclical-en-adj-4aHgKVU5 Categories (other): Botany, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 68 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 22 70 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 16 79 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 84 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 70 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 23 65 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 24 69 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 24 69 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 24 69 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 24 69 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 19 75 5 Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsaɪklɪkəl/, /ˈsɪklɪkəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cyclical.wav Forms: cyclicals [plural]
Etymology: From cyclic + -al. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kʷel-}}, {{af|en|cyclic|-al}} cyclic + -al Head templates: {{en-noun}} cyclical (plural cyclicals)
  1. (finance, often in the plural) A stock of a cyclical company. Tags: in-plural, often
    Sense id: en-cyclical-en-noun-ecDmb9hK Categories (other): Finance Topics: business, finance

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (c3cc510 and 1d3fdbf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.