polycyclic

adjective

Having two or more atomic rings in a molecule.

Having many rounds, turns, or whorls, as a shell.

In electricity, noting a system of electric distribution by alternating currents, in which the energy maxima of the flow of power of the different circuits overlap so as to give a total flow of power of constant intensity. This is the case in a symmetrical or hemisymmetrical polyphase system. See polyphase.

In chem., containing more than one atomic ring in the molecule.

adjective

Having two or more rings of atoms in the molecule.

noun

Such a compound