Difference between Periodical and Periodic

What is the difference between Periodical and Periodic?

Periodical as an adjective is periodic while Periodic as an adjective is relative to a period or periods.

Periodical

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily A publication that appears at fixed intervals Often contains the most current information in the field, on every conceivable topic, often in greater detail than other publication formats. The primary means for communication of original scholarship or creative work at the cutting edge of research in almost all fields.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Periodic Published at regular intervals of more than one day, especially weekly, monthly, or quarterly Of, or relating to such a publication

Periodic

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Relative to a period or periods.Having repeated cycles.Occurring at regular intervals.Pertaining to the revolution of a celestial object in its orbit.periodicalHaving a structure characterized by periodic sentences.Of or derived from a periodic acid.

Example sentence: For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

We hope you now know whether to use Periodical or Periodic in your sentence.

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