Translations:Dictionary:Cycle/1/en

{{#category_index:C|cycle}} 1. The interval or distance before a function or series repeats itself. Where the variable is time, a cycle is one period; where the variable is distance, a cycle is one wavelength. See Figure W-2. 2. A period of time during which sea level falls from a highstand position through a lowstand and returns to a highstand (Van Wagoner, 1995). 3. Milankovitch cycles (q.v.).