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CYCLE
A measure of time; a space In which the same revolutions begin again; a periodical space of time. Enc. Lond.
CYCLE BILLING
An invoice practice where credit customers ar billed daily instead of monthly.
CYCLE COUNT
Inventory practice where the stock is checked on a regular basis. Each item is counted once in an accounting period . A fast moving or expensive item is inventoried more […]
CYCLE RATE
The machine cycles per minute that do not necessarily represent its speed.
CYCLE TIME
The time needed to do one cycle or complete a function from start to finish. It is used to compare total run time to total time of a process.
CYCLIC VARIATION
When the economy changes due to a recurring cause. It can be seasonal or follow a business.
CYCLICAL
An event that happens on a regular basis.
CYCLICAL INDUSTRY
An industry that follows economic cycle. It profits in good times and declines in a recession. Health care is not an example of this type of business.
CYCLICAL STOCK
A security that is issued based on the companies economic trends. It is better when the economy is better and declines when the economy does. Compare this term to Noncyclical […]
CYCLICAL STOCKS
An industries shares that is subject to economic changes. They profit when the economy is good but fall when it is bad.
CYCLICALLY ADJUSTED DEFICIT
Predicting the governments budget loss when the economy is normal. It assumes spending and taxes are unchanged but does not consider the effect of national income versus debt.
CYCLICALLY ADJUSTED SURPLUS
The extra income that can be expected assuming normal economic behavior. Taxes and spending are assumed to be the same.
CYCLONE
When low barometic pressure and strong winds rotate counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere. The south pacific calls it a cyclone, the western atlantic calls it a hurricane, and the […]
CYLINDERBOARD
The paperboard thicker than 380 micrometers. It is glossy and printable used for packaging.
CYNE-BOT, or CYNE-GILD
The portion belonging to the nation of the mulct for slaying the king, the other portion or tcera being due to his family. Blount
CYNEBOTE
A mulct anciently paid by one who killed another, to the kindred of the deceased. Spelman.
CYPHERTEXT
Text or a message that is encrypted into a coded human unreadable form. The input must be decrypted to be read once recieved. It is also written as ciphertext.
CYPHONISM
That kind of punishment used by the ancients, and still used by the Chinese, called by Staunton the “wooden collar,” by which the neck of the malefactor Is bent or […]
CYRCE
In Saxon law. A church
CYRICBRYCE
A breaking into a church, Blount
CYRICSCEAT
(From c-yric, church, and sceat, a tribute.) In Saxon law. A tribute or payment due to the church. Cowell.
CYROGRAFHUM
A chirograph, (which see.)
CYROGRAPHARIUS
In old English law . A cyrographer; an officer of the banc- us, or court of common bench . Fleta, lib. 2, c. 30.
CZAR
The title of the emperor of Russia, first assumed by Basil, the son of Basilides, under whom the Russian power began to appear, about 1740.