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View synonyms for gyratory

gyratory

[ jahy-ruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. moving in a circle or spiral; gyrating.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gyratory1

First recorded in 1810–20; gyrat(ion) + -ory 1

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Example Sentences

He represents the agitation of the lodge to be due to currents of air, having the irregular and gyratory power of a whirlwind.

Pot′-holes, holes in the beds of rapid streams, made by an eddying current of water, which gives the stones a gyratory motion.

There is no precise estimate of the velocity of the gyratory motion.

This impressed motion will be converted into circulatory or gyratory motion.

They were forced to be passive; there was no means of preventing this gyratory motion.

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