Timeline for Uses of "Cyclic" vs. "Cyclical"? [duplicate]
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| May 25, 2014 at 20:16 | history | closed |
FumbleFingers tchrist♦ user66974 Monica Cellio choster |
Duplicate of "-ic versus -ical" what's the difference in meaning between adjectives ending in -ic or -ical? [duplicate] | |
| May 25, 2014 at 17:32 | comment | added | John Lawler | This is the first actual useful deployment of a tag I have seen. Well done, @RegDwigнt. | |
| May 25, 2014 at 14:37 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Matt: Yeah - although the actual question I cited was closed, I figured one of the duplinks within that would probably cover the general case well enough. I didn't check them all out myself, but if the first one worked for you that's good. | |
| May 25, 2014 at 14:07 | comment | added | Charles Staats | For this particular word, the use cases should often be regarded as technical language, and the conventions of the subject followed. In mathematics, anyone talking about "cyclical groups" rather than "cyclic groups" would receive funny looks; and it would be peculiar to use either term to describe a function, for which the correct adjective is periodic. | |
| May 25, 2014 at 12:49 | comment | added | Blessed Geek | Generally x-ic is a subset of x-ical : english.stackexchange.com/questions/171509/… | |
| May 25, 2014 at 12:29 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 25, 2014 at 12:19 | history | edited | Matt |
Added `ic-ical` tag.
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| May 25, 2014 at 12:17 | comment | added | Matt | @FumbleFingers, thanks! This seems to give a good answer. | |
| May 25, 2014 at 12:11 | comment | added | WS2 | Both are acceptable as adjectives, but I would much prefer cyclical in both instances you quote. | |
| May 25, 2014 at 12:03 | history | asked | Matt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |