Cycle

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Cycle, cycles, or cyclic may refer to:

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Anthropology and social sciences

  • Cyclic history, a theory of history
  • Cyclical theory, a theory of American political history associated with Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.
  • Social cycle, various cycles in social sciences
  • Business cycle, the downward and upward movement of gross domestic product (GDP) around its ostensible, long-term growth trend

Arts, entertainment, and media

= Films =

= Literature =

= Music =

== Musical terminology ==

  • Cycle (music), a set of musical pieces that belong together
  • Cyclic form, a technique of construction involving multiple sections or movements
  • Interval cycle, a collection of pitch classes generated from a sequence of the same interval class
  • Song cycle, individually complete songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit

== Albums ==

== Songs ==

Science, technology, and mathematics

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= Biology =

= Computing =

  • Cycles, a render engine for the software Blender
  • Instruction cycle, the time period during which a computer processes a machine language instruction
  • Reference cycle, where a software object refers directly or indirectly to itself

= Mathematics =

= Other uses in science and technology =

Vehicles

Other uses

See also

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