PERIODICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does periodicity mean? 

• PERIODICITY (noun)
  The noun PERIODICITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of recurring at regular intervals

  Familiarity information: PERIODICITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERIODICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of recurring at regular intervals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cyclicity; periodicity

Hypernyms ("periodicity" is a kind of...):

regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)

Attribute:

cyclic; cyclical (recurring in cycles)

noncyclic; noncyclical (not cyclic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "periodicity"):

regular recurrence; rhythm (recurring at regular intervals)

Derivation:

periodic (happening or recurring at regular intervals)

 Context examples 

They are characterized by a dramatic periodicity in protein abundance through the cell cycle.

(Cyclin Gene, NCI Thesaurus)