PERIODIC EVENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does periodic event mean? 

• PERIODIC EVENT (noun)
  The noun PERIODIC EVENT has 1 sense:

1. an event that recurs at intervals

  Familiarity information: PERIODIC EVENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERIODIC EVENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An event that recurs at intervals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

periodic event; recurrent event

Hypernyms ("periodic event" is a kind of...):

happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)

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

migration (the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding)

cycle; oscillation (a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon)

repeat; repetition (an event that repeats)

sunrise (the daily event of the sun rising above the horizon)

sunset (the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon)

beat; heartbeat; pulsation; pulse (the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart)

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)