multicyclen.adj.
/ˈmʌltɪˌsʌɪkl/, U.S. /ˈməltiˌsaɪk(ə)l/; see also multi- comb. form. A. n.
A pedal cycle with more than three wheels. Also: a pedal cycle for two or more riders.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > cycle with more than three wheels
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > cycle for two or more people
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1887 Longman's Mag. July 271 Composite or multi-cycles, carrying two or more passengers.
1898 Field 6 Aug. 275 This record stood until the 27th ult., when H. W. Payne, assisted by two multicycles as pacemakers, reduced this time to 1 min. 392/ 5 sec.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 327/2 The introduction of pacing by multicycles and motors next took from cycle racing what interest was left.
2000 Independent on Sunday 6 Aug. (Review Suppl.) 29/3 Designers have been experimenting with ‘multicycles’ since the 1880s, when the Royal Engineers used a multicycle for 20 soldiers in training exercises.
B. adj.
Involving many cycles; (Geology) = multicyclic adj. 2.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [adjective] > cycle
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polycyclic1935
multicyclic1952
1916 C. A. Cotton in Geogr. Rev. 1 39 The diagrams..represent stages in the growth of a composite (i.e., two-cycle or multi-cycle) delta.
1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 91 Multi-cycle feeding, a method of processing punched cards in which several fields of a single card are read sequentially on successive machine cycles.
1966 J. C. Pugh in G. H. Dury Ess. Geomorphol. 127 Multi-cycle bornhardts can also be found in the form of dome-on-dome residuals.
1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 599 We propose a blob model to explain the multi-cycle evolution of Canary volcanoes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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