Series vs Cycle - What's the difference?

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In electronics terms the difference between series and cycle

is that series is connected one after the other in a circuit while cycle is to turn power off and back on.

As an adjective series

is connected one after the other in a circuit.

As a verb cycle is

to ride a bicycle or other cycle.

series

English

Noun

(series)

A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

(US, Canada) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.

(British) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

(mathematics) The sum of the terms of a sequence.

(cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

(zoology) An unranked taxon.

(senseid) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

Usage notes

* In the United Kingdom, television and radio programs (spelt in Commonwealth English as "programmes") are divided into series, which are usually a year long. In North America, the word "series" is a synonym of "program", and programs are divided into year-long seasons. * (mathematics) Beginning students often confuse (term) with (sequence).

Synonyms

* (number of things that follow on one after the other) chain, line, sequence, stream, succession * (television or radio program) show, program

Derived terms

* (media, TV) TV series * (mathematics) arithmetic series, basic hypergeometric series, confluent hypergeometric series, formal power series, geometric series, hypergeometric series, power series

Adjective

(-)

(electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.

You have to connect the lights in series for them to work properly .

Antonyms

* parallel

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cycle

English

(wikipedia cycle)

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.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Legal highs: A new prescription , passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}

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)

Usage notes

* (aviation sense) One take-off and landing of an aircraft is a (term), referring to a (term) which places stresses on the fuselage. * (baseball sense) As in the example sentence, one is usually said to (term). However, other uses also occur, such as (term) and (term).

Derived terms

* cycle path * cyclic * acyclic

Verb

(cycl)

To ride a bicycle or other .

To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.

(electronics) To turn power off and back on

Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.

(ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal

They have their cycling game going tonight.

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