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Synonyms for gyratory
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : jahy-ruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒaɪ rəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i |
Top 10 synonyms for gyratory
Définition of gyratory
- As in rotary : adj turning
- As in revolving : adj capable of rotating
- As in revolving : adj circling
- As in whirling : adj rotating
- They were forced to be passive; there was no means of preventing this gyratory motion.
- Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne
- Storms are now admitted by all seamen to be gyratory, as we have seen.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States » by Raphael Semmes
- As soon as the current would strike an obstruction like the cylinder, it would make a gyratory sweep around its base.
- Extract from : « The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
- There is no precise estimate of the velocity of the gyratory motion.
- Extract from : « Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I » by Karl Ritter von Scherzer
- Two motions are usually visible, one ascending one near the earth and in the middle, and a gyratory one around the other.
- Extract from : « The Philosophy of the Weather » by Thomas Belden Butler
- He found them revolving like ours, and hence inferred the truth of the gyratory theory in relation to all winds.
- Extract from : « The Philosophy of the Weather » by Thomas Belden Butler
- Pot′-holes, holes in the beds of rapid streams, made by an eddying current of water, which gives the stones a gyratory motion.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
- In quarrying and crushing New Jersey trap rock with gyratory crushers the following was the cost of producing 200 cu.
- Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
- A vast basin has been thus formed, in which the sweep of the river prolongs itself in gyratory currents.
- Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
- The motion is described as “gyratory,” and the anterior end is always carried foremost.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 » by Various
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