NOUN
- motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same
How To Use periodic movement In A Sentence
- An alternation, which is not invalidated by exceptions here and there, has been observed in the criminality of different countries, in the periodic movement of crimes and offences against property and those against the person, of such a kind that years of increase in the former usually answer to a diminution in the latter, and vice versâ. Criminal Sociology
- The Torres Islands represent an ecological macrocosm whose two annual seasons are defined by the prevailing winds and by the periodic movement of the sun to the south and north of the thermal equator.