noun
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Meanings
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noun
the quality of recurring at regular intervals
The physicist measured the periodicity of the signal.
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Opposites
aperiodicityirregularity
Word family
Derived forms
antiperiodicityquasiperiodicity
Etymology
From French periodicite, from periodic + -ity, ultimately from Greek periodos ('circuit, cycle').