Cycle billing

System of billing accounts at spaced intervals during the month based on breakdown of accounts by alphabet, account number, insurance type, or date of first service. This relieves the pressure of having to get all the statements or insurance claims out at one time and allows continuous cash flow throughout the month. Also called cyclical billing .

Cyclone

A type of tropical atmospheric ‘disturbance’ characterized by masses of air rapidly circulating clockwise in the southern hemisphere, a low pressure center, usually accompanied by stormy, often destructive weather. Atmospheric system of low barometric pressure (depression ) accompanied by strong winds that rotate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Called ‘cyclone’ in the Indian ocean and southern Pacific, it is called ‘hurricane’ in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific and ‘typhoon’ in the western Pacific.