An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Any of several physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle, responding primarily to light and darkness in an organism's environment. Circadian rhythms are found in most living things, including animals, plants and many tiny microbes.

→ circadian; → rhythm.

1) An ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech; a particular example or form of rhythm.
2) The aspect of music comprising all the elements (as accent, meter, and tempo) that relate to forward movement.
3) A regularly recurrent quantitative change in a variable biological process (Merriam-Webster.com).

From L. rhythmus "movement in time," from Gk. rhythmos "measured flow or movement, rhythm; proportion, symmetry; arrangement," related to rhein "to flow," from PIE root *sreu- "to flow"

Ritm, loan from Fr.