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

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

Consequently, to distinguish the comparatively slowly changing currents of a "frequency" or "periodicity" of a few hundreds per second from these much more rapid ones, the latter are more often spoken of as electrical oscillations.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.