periodicity
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There seems to be a seven-year periodicity with these fireballs.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2024
"We increased the periodicity of the lattice to 170 nanometers by replacing the individual atoms with larger building blocks -- in our case, through DNA origami," says Posnjak.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2024
Annual cicadas do not have the periodicity of the magicicada that are emerging soon.
From New York Times • May 8, 2024
Detected by emitted luminosity, they spin and oscillate to the same height repeating to the same frequency— like ticking clocks with a predictable periodicity, but patterned across time, invisible to sight.
From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2023
Not less does the constitution of organisms which are, 'so to speak, constituted dependent upon periodicity of their functions, and so upon stable relations of their life,' serve to confirm the theory.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
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