periodicity
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There seems to be a seven-year periodicity with these fireballs.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2024
"We increased the periodicity of the lattice to 170 nanometers by replacing the individual atoms with larger building blocks -- in our case, through DNA origami," says Posnjak.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2024
Annual cicadas do not have the periodicity of the magicicada that are emerging soon.
From New York Times • May 8, 2024
Detected by emitted luminosity, they spin and oscillate to the same height repeating to the same frequency— like ticking clocks with a predictable periodicity, but patterned across time, invisible to sight.
From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2023
Thus, the emission-theory of light, in accustoming the physicist to think of the projectile path of the "light-particles" as an undifferentiated straight-line, demonstrably impeded the discovery of the periodicity of light.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
Vocabulary lists containing periodicity
The ACT Math Test: Functions
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Functions - High School
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