Cycle

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Cycle, cycles, or cyclic may refer to:

Anthropology and social sciences

  • Cyclic history
    , a theory of history
  • Cyclical theory
    , a theory of American political history associated with Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.
  • Social cycle
    , various cycles in social sciences
    • Business cycle, the downward and upward movement of gross domestic product (GDP) around its ostensible, long-term growth trend

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Literature

  • Cycle (magazine), an American motorcycling enthusiast magazine
  • Literary cycle
    , a group of stories focused on common figures

Music

Musical terminology

  • Cycle (music), a set of musical pieces that belong together
    • Cyclic form, a technique of construction involving multiple sections or movements
    • Interval cycle, a collection of pitch classes generated from a sequence of the same interval class
    • Song cycle, individually complete songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit

Albums

Songs

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology

Computing

  • Cycles, a render engine for the software Blender
  • Instruction cycle, the time period during which a computer processes a machine language instruction
  • Reference cycle
    , where a software object refers directly or indirectly to itself

Mathematics

  • Cycle (algebraic topology)
    , a simplicial chain with 0 boundary
  • Cycle (graph theory), a nontrivial path in a graph from a node to itself
    • Cycle graph, a graph that is itself a cycle
    • Cycle matroid
      , a matroid derived from the cycle structure of a graph
  • Cycle (sequence)
    , a sequence with repeating values
    • Cycle detection, the algorithmic problem of detecting repetitions in sequences generated by iterated functions
  • Cycle, a set equipped with a cyclic order
  • Cyclic (mathematics), a list of mathematics articles with "cyclic" in the title
  • Cyclic group, a group generated by a single element
  • Cyclic permutation, a basic permutation (all permutations are products of cycles)

Other uses in science and technology

Vehicles

Other uses

  • Cycling, a sport
  • Cycle (baseball)
    , a single, double, triple, and home run (in any order) by the same player in one game
  • Cycle, North Carolina, a community in the United States

See also