: the quality, state, or fact of being regularly recurrent or having periods
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebBut human influence is affecting the dynamics of weather systems, the periodicity of the jet stream and the moisture-holding capacity of the atmosphere. Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022 Such short periodicity provides strong evidence for a neutron-star origin of the event. Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 July 2022 Proofs of quantum advantage always seemed dependent on oracles that had some kind of nonrandom structure, such as periodicity.Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2022 Eventually, however, a light intensity pattern would spontaneously emerge with a starkly different periodicity set by the solitons parading through the cavity. Karmela Padavic-callaghan, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2022 In either case, the laser or the thread helps crystals form, but their periodicity, their patterning, is fully their own. Karmela Padavic-callaghan, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2022 There are no steady beats, though various kinds of periodicity come into play, including a rat-a-tat flapping noise that Fure elicits by holding a piece of paper over an upturned subwoofer. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021 But those hypotheses all assume that grid cells map landscapes with perfect periodicity, Ulanovsky notes.Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2021 Researchers had seen, for instance, that changing the geometry of a room could push and pull at the hexagonal grids, distorting their activity and rigid periodicity.Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2021 See More
Word History
First Known Use
1820, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
periodicity
noun
pe·ri·od·ic·i·ty ˌpir-ē-ə-ˈdis-ət-ē
plural periodicities
: the quality, state, or fact of being regularly recurrent or having periods
the periodicity of peptic ulcer is … characteristic of the diseaseJournal of the American Medical Association