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Rotary

adjective

1.

Relating to or characterized by rotation.

2.

Describing a circle; moving in a circle. Synonyms: circular, orbitual.

noun

1.

A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island. Synonyms: circle, roundabout, traffic circle.

2.

Electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that converts alternating to direct current or vice versa. Synonyms: rotary converter, synchronous converter.

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"Rotary" Quotes from Famous Books

... from this very shadow what seem to be luminous bodies, which dart their rays in all directions with inconceivable rapidity, and to a great distance. These luminous appearances—these aureola rays—have, in addition to the darting movement, a rapid rotary movement around ...

— Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) - Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky • Various

... borrowed ears. Try as he might, however, he could not identify the sound exactly. It was more like an engine than anything else, except that the separate sounds which comprised the buzz occurred infinitely close together. Smith concluded that the machine was some highly developed rotary affair, working at perhaps six or eight thousand revolutions a minute—three or four times as ...

— The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix • Homer Eon Flint

... trade, which is without doubt the most laborious one in metallurgy, will surely soon be lightened through the use of steam. Two rotary furnaces actuated by this agent have been in operation for a few years at Creusot, and each is yielding 20 tons of iron ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various

... ROTARY CLUB of Jubilation welcomes and extends the warm hand of friendship to you!!!! You are now ...

— Jubilation, U.S.A. • G. L. Vandenburg

... no sooner beheld Mr. Pickwick advancing towards him with the chaise whip in his hand, than he exchanged the rotary motion in which he had previously indulged, for a retrograde movement of so very determined a character, that it at once drew Mr. Winkle, who was still at the end of the bridle, at a rather quicker rate ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

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