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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/periodical/#m1)

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

- The library keeps science periodicals on the top shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/periodical/#x1)
- My aunt writes for a gardening periodical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/periodical/#x2)
- Children's periodicals like comics come out weekly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/periodical/#x3)
- The museum has old periodicals from the 1800s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/periodical/#x4)
- The machine needs periodical checks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/periodical/#x5)
- She looked up the article in a medical periodical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/periodical/#x6)
- 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/school/P/periodical/#x7)

### 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/school/P/periodical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.