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Definition of Periodic movement

1. Noun. Motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Periodic Movement

Literary usage of Periodic movement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1900)
"The second part deals with a new example of periodic movement. If a " sleeping" plant is placed in a dark room after its leaves have assumed the nocturnal ..."

2. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"There are two possibilities by way of explanation of this contradiction ; either regular and long continued periodic movement in the dark is not an ..."

3. Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri, William West Smithers, Joseph Ignatius Kelly, John Lisle (1917)
"CHAPTER III periodic movement OF CRIME General data on periodical movement of crime in Europe. § 136. The Periodical Movement of Crime. ..."

4. Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri, William West Smithers, Joseph Ignatius Kelly, John Lisle (1917)
"CHAPTER III periodic movement OF CRIME General data on periodical movement of crime in Europe. § 136. The Periodical Movement of Crime. ..."

5. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"In such cases there is evidently a periodic movement independent of external ... In some cases the periodic movement may be due to an after-effect of the ..."

6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1839)
"In the female of inferior animals the analogous hepta-periodic movement is ... Its due flow indicates that the hepta-periodic movement is normally performed ..."

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