rhythmicity
noun
rhyth·mic·i·ty
rit͟h-ˈmi-sə-tē 
: the state of being rhythmic or of responding rhythmically
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Some genes had adopted a completely different rhythm of activity, while others had lost their rhythmicity altogether.
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Mackenzie Gamble, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
In 2015, Aziz Sancar, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, won the Nobel Prize for his discovery that a skin protein that repairs damage from ultraviolet exposure is controlled by a clock gene and thus operates with circadian rhythmicity.
—New York Times, 6 July 2022
Under a diurnal pattern of 12 hours of light followed by 12 hours of dark, these genes exhibited greater expressional rhythmicity, which promoted metabolic flexibility.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
In particular, spurious hyper-connections are likely to be found whenever any difference between experimental conditions induces systematic changes in the rhythmicity of the EEG.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2014
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Mackenzie Gamble, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
In 2015, Aziz Sancar, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, won the Nobel Prize for his discovery that a skin protein that repairs damage from ultraviolet exposure is controlled by a clock gene and thus operates with circadian rhythmicity.
—New York Times, 6 July 2022
Under a diurnal pattern of 12 hours of light followed by 12 hours of dark, these genes exhibited greater expressional rhythmicity, which promoted metabolic flexibility.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
In particular, spurious hyper-connections are likely to be found whenever any difference between experimental conditions induces systematic changes in the rhythmicity of the EEG.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2014
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rhythmicity
noun
rhyth·mic·i·ty
rit͟h-ˈmis-ət-ē
plural rhythmicities
: the state of being rhythmic or of responding rhythmically
the rhythmicity of the heart
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