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PERIODIC MOVEMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does periodic movement mean?
• PERIODIC MOVEMENT (noun)
The noun PERIODIC MOVEMENT has 1 sense:
1. motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same
Familiarity information: PERIODIC MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
periodic motion; periodic movement
Hypernyms ("periodic movement" is a kind of...):
motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "periodic movement"):
harmonic motion (a periodic motion in which the displacement is either symmetrical about a point or is the sum of such motions)
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