Quasiperiodic

From Glossary of Meteorology



quasiperiodic

A term with a variety of meanings usually used to describe motion, a series of data, or a mathematical function the behavior of which suggests a recurring pattern but fails to conform to the strict meaning of periodicity in that an ordered set of values does not repeat at regular intervals of time or space.


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