Gyration

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  • noun. The act of gyrating.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Circular or spiral motion.
  • noun. An oscillation or varying between states.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A wheeling; whirling; revolution; a wheeling motion, like that of the moon round the earth.
  • noun. Tn univalve shells, one of the whorls of the spire.
  • noun. Any system of gyri or convolutions in the brain.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
  • noun. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
  • noun. See under Center.
  • noun. the distance between the axis of a rotating body and its center of gyration.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
  • noun. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of rotating in a circle or spiral
  • noun. a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
    • Word Usage
    "The current "gyration" is already down 48\% since May."
    Hypernym
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    rotary motion  rotation  
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    Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  
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    ah-64  atresponding  bmp  comittment  delocalization  
    Synonym
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    angular momentum  angular motion  angular velocity  axial motion  bowling  
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