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Rotatory

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn.  Synonym: revolutionary.



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"Rotatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... Satan,—he who his unglad Task ever plies midst rotatory burnings For wrath divine has made him like a wheel In that red realm ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... the effect of the friction of the earth's surface on the eastward circulation of the air by a very simple experiment with a pail of water. If we put into the pail grains of any material a little heavier than water, and then give the water a rotatory motion by stirring it, the grains ought, by the centrifugal force imparted to them, to collect around the sides of the pail; but, sinking to the bottom, they do in fact tend to collect at the centre, carried inward by those currents ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various



Words linked to "Rotatory" :   rotate, rotation



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