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RHYTHMIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recurring with measured regularity
Example:
rhythmical prose
Synonyms:
rhythmic; rhythmical
Classified under:
Similar:
Adonic (having a rhythm consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee or a trochee)
cadenced; cadent (marked by a rhythmical cadence)
danceable (suitable for dancing)
jazzy (resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm))
lilting; swinging; swingy; tripping (characterized by a buoyant rhythm)
measured; metric; metrical (the rhythmic arrangement of syllables)
Sapphic (a meter used by Sappho and named after her)
chantlike; intoned; singsong (uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting)
syncopated (stressing a normally weak beat)
throbbing (pounding or beating strongly or violently)
Also:
regular (in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle)
Derivation:
rhythm (recurring at regular intervals)
rhythm (an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs)
rhythmicity (the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music)
Context examples:
This one, the Earth-sized Kepler-80g, and four of its neighboring planets form what is called a resonant chain - where planets are locked by their mutual gravity in a rhythmic orbital dance.
(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)
A disorder characterized by a dysrhythmia with organized rhythmic atrial contractions with a rate of 200-300 beats per minute.
(Atrial Flutter, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
The clonic phase features rhythmic flexor contractions of the trunk and limbs, pupillary dilation, elevations of blood pressure and pulse, urinary incontinence, and tongue biting.
(Grand Mal Epilepsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Amy and her Pole distinguished themselves by equal enthusiasm but more graceful agility, and Laurie found himself involuntarily keeping time to the rhythmic rise and fall of the white slippers as they flew by as indefatigably as if winged.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Symptoms vary with different lesion locations and may include but not limited to the motor (e.g. rhythmic muscle contractions in one area of the body), somatosensory and sensory alterations manifested by abnormal numbness, paresthesias or other hallucinations, including several types of aura; autonomic and psychic symptoms, e.g. with changes in speech, thought, personality, mood, sensation of deja vu or hallucinations.
(Partial Seizure, NCI Thesaurus)
A childhood seizure disorder characterized by rhythmic electrical brain discharges of generalized onset.
(Petit Mal Epilepsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The activity of the immune system is another rhythmic function controlled by clock genes, which act as a necessary brake this activity.
(New study sheds fresh light on the genetic mechanisms involved in sepsis, the leading cause of death in ICUs, University of Granada)
Joe was halfway down to the saloon when Martin passed by, bending low over the handle-bars, his legs driving the ninety-six gear with rhythmic strength, his face set for seventy miles of road and grade and dust.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
