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A Thermodynamic cycle is just any scenario where you manipulate a system and end up bringing it back to its original state one or more times. There's an implied contrast with the environment (everything except whatever you've defined as the system) which very possibly doesn't go back to its initial state after a whole cycle of the system.
Thermodynamic cycles are important because the Second Law imposes interesting constraints on the sort of things you can do, and it often turns out that with a finite amount of equipment (your system) you can't do even approximately what you'd like except by running it in a cycle. In particular,
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