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# periodical

«periodical» in Mova's judaism 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#m1)

2) adjective: Happening again and again at regular times (usually "periodic"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#m2)

### 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

- Magazines and periodicals are respectfully requested to serid copies of their reviews of this thesis to the author, P. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#x1)
- The library keeps science periodicals on the top shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#x2)
- My aunt writes for a gardening periodical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#x3)
- Children's periodicals like comics come out weekly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#x4)
- The museum has old periodicals from the 1800s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#x5)
- The machine needs periodical checks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#x6)
- She looked up the article in a medical periodical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#x7)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/#x8)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/periodical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.