periodic

Having or marked by repeated cycles.

Happening or appearing regularly or from time to time.

Characterized by periodic sentences.

In mathematics, with values which recur as the value of the independent variable continuously increases.

Noting an acid, a substance produced by the interaction of iodine and aqueous perchloric acid, known only in crystals which contain two molecules of water: HIO₄.2H₂O. Its solution has a strong acid reaction and it forms several distinct series of salts.

Pertaining to or of the nature of a period, cycle, or round of years or events.

Performed or proceeding in a series of successive circuits or revolutions: as, the periodic motions of the planets round the sun, or of the moon round the earth.

Happening or occurring at regularly recurring intervals of time; statedly recurring; as, a periodic publication; the periodic return of a plant’s flowering; periodic outbursts; the periodic character of ague; the periodic motion of a vibrating tuniug-fork or musical string.

In rhetoric: Of or pertaining to a period or complete sentence; complete in grammatical structure.

Noting that form of sentence in which the sense is incomplete or suspended until the end is reached.