Definition of "aperiodic" [aperiodic]

• Occurring without periodicity; irregular. (adjective)
• Physics Without periodic vibrations. (adjective)

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• "Some trajectory orbits are aperiodic, meaning that they do not repeat themselves on any time scales."
• "Schrödinger proposed that a gene could be stable from one generation to another if it is an 'aperiodic' crystal – in other words, something with a regular but non-repeating structure."
• "But life is characterized by specified complexity: the aperiodic, information-rich sequences of DNA and proteins, for instance, which appear nearly random to standard information theory."