Dictionary Entry
periodical
periodical is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
- 2adjective
Performed in a period, or regular revolution; proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical motion of the planets round the sun.
- 3adjective
Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics.
- 4adjective
Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence.
- 5noun
A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.
- 6noun
a publication that appears at fixed intervals
- 7adjective
happening or recurring at regular intervals
"the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust"
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