[ US /ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪkəɫ/ ]
[ UK /pˌi‍əɹɪˈɒdɪkə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a publication that appears at fixed intervals
ADJECTIVE
  1. happening or recurring at regular intervals
    the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust
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How To Use periodical In A Sentence

  • We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
  • This is then stacked into windrows or movable racks under a roofed area, and the piles are periodically aerated.
  • He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
  • During further analysis of these cosmids, high throughput sequence databanks were periodically screened for homology to the unique sequences until unannotated files containing exact matches appeared.
  • Lobsters, like all animals with exoskeletons, periodically shed their armor as they grow.
  • In response to a recommendation of the Calcutt Committee made in 1990, the press set up in 1991 the Commission and it was charged with upholding and enforcing the code, which was framed by the newspaper and the periodical industry.
  • In the past floods have joined together Buttermere and Crummock lakes into one huge mere, and unified Thirlmere periodically long before Manchester Corporation turned it into one big reservoir. A seasonal lament
  • Periodically, bark and litter samples from each site were collected, moist chambered in the manner described by Gilbert and Martin, and examined closely for plasmodia and fruiting bodies for a three week period.
  • The twang of a guitar string resounded periodically, but never a song.
  • The present situation, of periodical outbursts in the press, is an inadequate way of fostering good relationships with the Asian community and does not encourage change and communal harmony.
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