carbon cycle

1. 1.

   the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again

   Broaderorganic process
2. 2.

   a thermonuclear reaction in the interior of stars

   Broaderthermonuclear reaction

Questions about carbon cycle

What does carbon cycle mean?

carbon cycle means "the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is carbon cycle a common word?

carbon cycle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.