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pe·ri·od·i·cal

(pîr′ē-ŏd′ĭ-kəl)

adj.

1. Periodic.

a. Published at regular intervals of more than one day.

b. Of or relating to a publication issued at such intervals.

A publication issued at regular intervals of more than one day.

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periodical

(ˌpɪərɪˈɒdɪkəl)

(Journalism & Publishing) a publication issued at regular intervals, usually monthly or weekly

adj

1. (Journalism & Publishing) of or relating to such publications

2. (Journalism & Publishing) published at regular intervals

3. periodic or occasional

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pe•ri•od•i•cal

(ˌpɪər iˈɒd ɪ kəl)

n.

1. a publication that is issued under the same title at regular intervals.

adj.

2. of or pertaining to such publications.

3. published at regular intervals.

4. periodic (defs. 1–3).

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Noun	1.	periodical - a publication that appears at fixed intervals publication - a copy of a printed work offered for distribution digest - a periodical that summarizes the news pictorial - a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures serial publication, serial, series - a periodical that appears at scheduled times organ - a periodical that is published by a special interest group; "the organ of the communist party" issue, number - one of a series published periodically; "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room" journal - a periodical dedicated to a particular subject; "he reads the medical journals" review - a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
Adj.	1.	periodical - happening or recurring at regular intervals; "the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust" periodic

periodical

noun

1. publication, paper, review, magazine, journal, weekly, monthly, organ, serial, quarterly, zine (informal) The walls were lined with books and periodicals.

2. recurrent, regular, repeated, occasional, seasonal, cyclical, sporadic, intermittent, every so often, infrequent, cyclic, every once in a while, spasmodic, at fixed intervals periodical fits of depression

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periodical

adjective

1. Happening or appearing at regular intervals:

cyclic, cyclical, isochronal, isochronous, periodic, recurrent.

Idiom: like clockwork.

2. Happening or appearing now and then:

fitful, intermittent, occasional, periodic, sporadic.

Informal: on-again, off-again.

Translations

مَجَلَّه أو نَشْرَة دَورِيَّه

časopisperiodikum

tidsskrift

Zeitschrift

périodique revue journal

tímarit

periodico

dergi mecmua

期刊

periodical

[ˌpɪərɪˈɒdɪkəl]

A. ADJ → periódico

B. N → revista f, publicación f periódica

C. CPD periodicals library N → hemeroteca f

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periodical

[ˌpɪəriˈɒdɪkəl]

adj [check-up, screening] → périodique
to make periodical visits to sb → rendre périodiquement visite à qn
She made periodical visits to her dentist → Elle rendait périodiquement visite à son dentiste.

n (= magazine) → périodique m

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periodical

adj = periodic

n → Zeitschrift f; (academic also) → Periodikum nt

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periodical

[ˌpɪərɪˈɒdɪk/əl]

1. adj → periodico/a

2. n → periodico

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period

(ˈpiəriəd) noun

1. any length of time. a period of three days; a period of waiting.

2. a stage in the Earth's development, an artist's development, in history etc. the Pleistocene period; the modern period.

3. the punctuation mark (.), put at the end of a sentence; a full stop.

adjective

(of furniture, costumes etc) of or from the same or appropriate time in history; antique or very old. period costumes; His house is full of period furniture (=antique furniture).

ˌperiˈodic (-ˈo-) adjective

1. happening, done etc occasionally. He suffers from periodic fits of depression.

2. (also ˌperiˈodical) happening, done etc at regular intervals. periodical reports.

ˌperiˈodically adverb

We see each other periodically.

ˌperiˈodical (-ˈo-) noun

a magazine which is issued regularly (every week, month etc).

adjective

see periodic.

periodical

n. publicación, periódico.

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Periodical Appeals to the People Considered From the New York Packet.

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This design was no easy one to accomplish; and it has been a great encouragement to me (during the publication of my story in its periodical form) to know, on the authority of many readers, that the object which I had proposed to myself, I might, in some degree, consider as an object achieved.

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Poe's first genuine victory was won in 1833, when .he was the successful competitor for a prize of $100 offered by a Baltimore periodical for the best prose story.

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The papers collected here under the name of 'My Literary Passions' were printed serially in a periodical of such vast circulation that they might well have been supposed to have found there all the acceptance that could be reasonably hoped for them.

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After characteristically varied and unsuccessful efforts at conducting a periodical, newspaper writing, and preaching as a Unitarian (a creed which was then considered by most Englishmen disreputable and which Coleridge later abandoned), he moved with his wife in 1797 to Nether Stowey in Somersetshire.

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When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved to recreate the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave birth to Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable to Vishnoo before beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became incarnate in a whale, and sounding down in him to the uttermost depths, rescued the sacred volumes.

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Since this was done, the accumulated refuse collected from the periodical cleansings of the house, during a term of nearly three years--including, of course, the ashes from the fires kept burning, for the greater part of the year, in the library and the picture-gallery--have been poured upon the heap, and have buried the precious morsels of paper deeper and deeper, day by day.

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A year ago he had finished his book, the fruit of six years' labor, "Sketch of a Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia." Several sections of this book and its introduction had appeared in periodical publications, and other parts had been read by Sergey Ivanovitch to persons of his circle, so that the leading ideas of the work could not be completely novel to the public.

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Since they had no extensive muscular mechanism to recuperate, that periodical extinction was unknown to them.

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They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half; so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distance from the centre of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same law of gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

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On the left was an old abandoned mill, with its motionless wings, from the ruins of which an owl threw out its shrill, periodical, and monotonous cry.

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And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab, and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages, Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver.