I've never understood why cadence has so many different and apparently unrelated definitions. It's not like there aren't plenty of other words available
I knew it as a way to describe a resolution of a chord progression in a piece of music and then about 20 years ago I became aware of it also for some reason describing how fast a cyclist's feet were going round (never confirmed that one, just took my mate's word for it that it was just a way of describing RPM). Also used to describe the flow of language, I guess that's where the cycling bit came from although I think the point of cadence in language is that it describes something that's
not regular rather than something that
is.
