figurative. A reiterated or recurring course of actions, events, or time; an endless round or cycle.
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| 释义 | the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] (38) wheel?c1225 figurative. A reiterated or recurring course of actions, events, or time; an endless round or cycle. circlec1475 A completed revolution or course of time, or of action, or events in time; a cycle, period. revolution1554 A recurring period of time, a cycle; an epoch. Obsolete. zodiac1560 figurative and allusively. (a) Recurrent series, round, course. (b) Compass, range. (c) Set of twelve. circuit1601 figurative; esp. of time: Revolution, round. †by circuit: at regularly recurring times (obsolete). compass1609 A circuit of time, round, revolution. orb?1611 A recurring period; a cycle. Obsolete. round1652 The constant passage and recurrence of days, years, or other cyclical measures of time; the passage of time in cyclical periods. Also: a… cycle1662 gen. A period in which a certain round of events or phenomena is completed, recurring in the same order in succeeding periods of the same length. Subcategories:— cyclic condition (3) — cycle (of years) (1) — fifteen year cycle or indiction (3) — as a unit in chronology (3) — astronomical cycle (7) — through which anything runs to its completion (1) — of events, etc. (3) — lunar cycle of nineteen years (8) |
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