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a.
Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
v. i.
To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
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turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
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An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
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Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles.
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An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton.
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Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary.
v. i.
To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
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Turning as on an axis; rotary.
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Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.
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Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rotate
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The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.
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Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
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Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
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Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
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Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.
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that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
imp. & p. p.
of Rotate
n.
A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
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