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gyratory

/jahy-ruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ˈdʒaɪ rəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //

回旋式,回转式,旋回式,回旋处

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : moving in a circle or spiral; gyrating.

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Examples

  • 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.