periodic movement

1. 1.

   motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same

   Synonymsperiodic motion

   Broadermovement

   Narrowerharmonic motion

Questions about periodic movement

What does periodic movement mean?

periodic movement means "motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same".

What is another word for periodic movement?

Close synonyms include periodic motion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is periodic movement a common word?

periodic movement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.