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say it: SAHY-klik
cyclic is an adjective meaning "conforming to the Carnot cycle". It is pronounced /ˈsaɪklɪk/ — SAHY-klik. It carries 5 recorded senses.
conforming to the Carnot cycle
thermodynamics
forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl
“cyclic petals”
“cyclic flowers”
botany
of a compound having atoms arranged in a ring structure
chemistry
marked by repeated cycles
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cyclic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.