polycycle

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ cycle.

Noun

polycycle (plural polycycles)

1. (mathematics) A planar countably locally-finite graph in which all interior vertices have the maximum vertex degree and all interior faces are polygons with the same number of faces.
   • 2004, Normal Forms, Bifurcations and Finiteness Problems in Differential Equations‎:

     Recall that the cyclicity of a polycycle in a family of equations is the maximal number of limit cycles that may occur from the polycycle in this family.

2. (radar) A waveform with multiple cycles of the carrier within the pulse envelope.