periodicity

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There seems to be a seven-year periodicity with these fireballs.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2024

Annual cicadas do not have the periodicity of the magicicada that are emerging soon.

From New York Times • May 8, 2024

However, these were systems that -- unlike Wilczek's original idea -- are subjected to a temporal excitation with a specific periodicity, but then react with another period twice as long.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

But human influence is affecting the dynamics of weather systems, the periodicity of the jet stream and the moisture-holding capacity of the atmosphere.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022

Not less does the constitution of organisms which are, 'so to speak, constituted dependent upon periodicity of their functions, and so upon stable relations of their life,' serve to confirm the theory.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.