multicycle

noun

Etymology

From multi- + cycle.

  1. derived from *kʷékʷlos
  2. derived from κύκλος
  3. derived from cyclus
  4. inherited from cicle — “fixed length period of years
  5. prefixed as multicycle — “multi + cycle

Definitions

  1. A kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.

  2. A velocipede with more than three wheels

    A velocipede with more than three wheels; specifically, one developed in the 19th century with seven pairs of wheels, capable of carrying five to twelve people but steered by only one.

  3. Of or pertaining to more than one cycle.

    • Mark Hill suggested dropping the multicycle processor implementation and instead adding a multicycle cache controller to the memory hierarchy chapter. This allowed the processor to be presented in a single chapter instead of two.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for multicycle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA