autocyclicadj.
/ˌɔːtəʊˈsʌɪklɪk/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊˈsɪklɪk/, /ˌɑdoʊˈsɪklɪk/, /ˌɔdoʊˈsaɪklɪk/, /ˌɑdoʊˈsaɪklɪk/ 1. Biochemistry. In the context of a living cell: designating a rhythmically occurring, periodically reversible reaction. rare.
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1943 Bot. Rev. 9 112 A number of autocyclic rhythmic reactions are known to occur in protoplasm; the glycogen-lactic-acid cycle in muscle is one.
2. Geology. Designating cyclic or repetitive patterns of deposition within a sedimentary system which are attributed to factors internal to the system. Also: relating to or involving such a factor. Cf. allocyclic adj. 2.
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1964 J. R. Beerbower in Bull. State Geol. Surv. Kansas 169 32/2 The first, hereafter called autocyclic, are generated in the depositional prism and include such items as channel migration, channel diversion, and bar migration.
1988 Science 29 July 597/1 Events caused by autocyclic processes will not correlate either within the basin or with other basins.
2007 J. A. Maceachern et al. in W. Miller Trace Fossils vii. 119/1 In genetic stratigraphy, differentiation of breaks of autocyclic derivation from those of allocyclic origin is paramount.
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