quasiperiodic
adjective
quasiperiodic is an adjective meaning “Almost periodic; recurring at irregular intervals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Q-U-A-S-I-P-E-R-I-O-D-I-C, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does quasiperiodic mean?
adjective
- 1
Almost periodic; recurring at irregular intervals.
- 2
Such that an increment of a variable leads to a multiplication by some function.
- 3
Having two unrelated periods.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of quasiperiodic
- more quasiperiodic comparative
- most quasiperiodic superlative
- quasi-periodic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is quasiperiodic?
Quasiperiodic appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does quasiperiodic come from?
From quasi- + periodic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).