Word Meanings - PERIODIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERIODIC)

• Recurrent
• Returning
• periodic
• frequent
• repeated
• reiterated
• intermittent
• Remittent
• Periodic
• recurrent

Related words: (words related to PERIODIC)

• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• REITERATE
  To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak. Syn.
• REPEATER
  One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message
• FREQUENTNESS
  The quality of being frequent.
• FREQUENTATION
  The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.
• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• INTERMITTENTLY
  With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.
• PERIODICALLY
  In a periodical manner.
• FREQUENTABLE
  Accessible. Sidney.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• FREQUENT
  1. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers." Byron. 2. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. He has been
• FREQUENTAGE
  The practice or habit of frequenting. Southey.
• INTERMITTENT
  An intermittent fever or disease. Dunglison.
• REITERATION
  The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
• RETURN
  1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye. Spenser. 2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money. 3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite. The Lord
• REMITTENT
  Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. Remittent fever , a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.
• REPEATING
  Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal , a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• NONRECURRENT
  Not recurring.
• INFREQUENT
  Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual. The act whereof is at this day infrequent or out of use among all sorts of men. Sir T. Elyot.
• RE-REITERATE
  To reiterate many times. "My re-reiterated wish." Tennyson.