Noun

(wikipedia community) (communities)

A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.

* Hallam

Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .

* Wordsworth

Creatures that in communities exist.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)

A commune, or residential or religious collective.

The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.

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(ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.

(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.

(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.

* (John Locke)

The original community of all things.

* (Washington Irving)

An unreserved community of thought and feeling.

(obsolete) common character; likeness.

* H. Spencer

The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.

(obsolete) commonness; frequency

* Shakespeare

Eyes sick and blunted with community .

Noun

(en noun)

An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.

the cycle of the seasons, or of the year

* Burke

Wages to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.

A complete rotation of anything.

A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.

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The members of the sequence formed by such a process.

(music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.

A series of poems, songs or other works of art.

A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.

the spin cycle

A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike.

(baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.

(graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

(Milton)

(Burke)

An age; a long period of time.

* Tennyson

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.

* Evelyn

We present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.

(botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.

a cycle or set of leaves

(Gray)