Definition of "cycle" []

• An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs: Sunspots increase and decrease in intensity in an 11-year cycle. (noun)
• A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon: A year constitutes a cycle of the seasons. (noun)
• A periodically repeated sequence of events: the cycle of birth, growth, and death; a cycle of reprisal and retaliation. (noun)
• The orbit of a celestial body. (noun)
• A long period of time; an age. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "i = 1 cycle: = farmy/2 newx = % startx% newy = % starty% loop, % cycle%"
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• "Whether she would want to pay cut from her stratospheric £400,000 is questionable, and why bother when it is clearly yet another spin cycle from the Brown ministry of truth."