MEANING
To shut off power to a device and then restore it to restart its operation.
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Words that belong together
- power-cycle a terminal
- power-cycle the controller
On the page
She power-cycled the terminal after saving the diagnostic log.
Power-cycling the controller cleared the temporary fault but not its cause.
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Word forms
- Base
- power-cycle
- Past tense
- power-cycled
- Past participle
- power-cycled
- Present participle
- power-cycling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- power-cycle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are power-cycling
- Present perfect
- have/has power-cycled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been power-cycling
- Past
- power-cycled
- Past continuous
- was/were power-cycling
- Past perfect
- had power-cycled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been power-cycling
- Future
- will power-cycle
- Future continuous
- will be power-cycling
- Future perfect
- will have power-cycled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been power-cycling
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: power-cycle; power-cycles; power-cycled; power-cycled; power-cycling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: power-cycles.
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