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Cycle

• Cycle studies for interdisciplinary cycle research. See also Foundation for the Study of Cycles and list of cycles
• Cyclical patterns in history.
• The Indiction cycle is a Roman tax cycle of 15 years.
• In physics, the CNO cycle is a type of fusion reaction. The Rabi cycle is a term in quantum optics.
• The duty cycle in telecommunication.
• The Rapid Update Cycle for weather forecast.
• The Milankovitch cycles in paleo-climatology.
• The Boyd cycle in military strategy.
• The Nuclear fuel cycle.
• Operation Cycle during World War II.
• Top cycle, a notion in voting systems.
• Hitting for the cycle in Baseball.
• The dynastic cycle in Chinese political theory.
• The Sexagesimal cycle in Chinese philosophy and calendar.
• The Instruction cycle in a CPU.

• In arts,
• In music: Interval cycle and song cycle in music. Also in music, the cycle of fifths.
• A literature cycle, e.g. The Ring Cycle (more examples there).
• A sonnet cycle (examples there).
• The Cremaster Cycle, a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney.
• The Baroque Cycle, a series of books written by Neal Stephenson.
• The Pendragon Cycle, a series of books written by Stephen R. Lawhead.
• Northern Homily Cycle, a poem from the 14th century
• Break The Cycle, Staind's 3rd album.

• In astronomy,
• The eclipse cycle and the Saros cycle.
• The solar cycle related to sunspots.
• The full moon cycle.
• The Metonic cycle in calendars.
• The Sothic cycle in the ancient Egyptian calendar.

• Bicycle related meanings include
• Bicycle, tricycle and unicycle. See also Freight bicycle.
• Motorcycle.
• The Paris-Roubaix Cycle Race.
• A cycle path and (in Britain), the Sea to Sea Cycle Route and the National Cycle Network.
• The Wright Cycle Company which funded the brothers' Wright aviation experiments.

• Biological meanings include
• The life cycle;
• The reproductive cycle;
• The cell cycle;
• The sleep cycle;
• The lytic cycle related to viruses;
• The honeybee life cycle;
• The eel life cycle;
• The earthworm organic cycle;
• The urea cycle; and
• The Menstrual cycle.
• The human sexual response cycle

• Chemical meanings include
• A series of chemical reactions. See e.g. Citric acid cycle, the Born Haber cycle or the Calvin cycle.
• Biogeochemical cycles such as the water cycle and the Ozone-oxygen cycle (see list there).
• A cyclic compound. See also alicyclic compound.

• In engines,
• The Otto cycle, the Diesel cycle, the two-stroke cycle, the Miller cycle and the Atkinson cycle in cars;
• The Carnot cycle, Rankine cycle, Stirling cycle and Ericsson Cycle in heat engines;
• The Brayton cycle in a gas turbine;
• The combined cycle in power plants;
• The Refrigeration cycle
• Rockets,
• The liquid air cycle engine
• The expander cycle
• The Gas-generator cycle
• The Staged combustion cycle
• The Pressure-fed cycle

• In finance,
• A cash conversion cycle.
• The related notions of product life cycle management, Life cycle cost analysis, life cycle assessment and systems development life cycle.
• Virtuous circle and vicious circle.
• A business cycle, e.g. the RBC.
• A cycle count is an inventory management procedure.

• Mathematical meanings include
• A cycle in a permutation. See also Cyclic permutation.
• A cyclic group.
• A cycle and a Hamiltonian cycle in graph theory. See also cycle space and Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm.
• A cycle is an element of a homology class. See also Hodge cycle.
• The Limit-cycle in dynamical systems, e.g. the Lotka-Volterra cycle.
• A cycle matroid.
• A cyclic order.

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