periodical

«periodical» in Mova's school dictionary: noun: A magazine or journal that comes out regularly… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a periodical, periodicals); adjective (periodical)

meaning for a pupil

1) noun: A magazine or journal that comes out regularly, such as every week, month or three months. tree →

2) adjective: Happening again and again at regular times (usually "periodic"). tree →

sense in the lessons

In libraries and research, periodicals are magazines and journals, kept on special shelves. Scientists publish discoveries in periodicals. As an adjective, it means repeated at times: periodical checks.

examples

• The library keeps science periodicals on the top shelf. tree →
• My aunt writes for a gardening periodical. tree →
• Children's periodicals like comics come out weekly. tree →
• The museum has old periodicals from the 1800s. tree →
• The machine needs periodical checks. tree →
• She looked up the article in a medical periodical. tree →
• Of late years several articles have appeared in some of the German periodicals,[5] giving accounts or translations of some of the Russian Popular Tales. tree →

note

Countable noun. "Periodic" (adjective) is more common for "happening regularly" (the periodic table of elements is a chemistry chart). Both come from "period" (a length of time).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «periodical» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.