Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, causing, or characterized by rotation.
- adjective Characterized by or occurring in alternation or succession.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing something to rotate; producing rotation.
- Pertaining to rotation; rotational.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
- adjective a steam engine in which the reciprocating motion of the piston is transformed into a continuous rotary motion, as by means of a connecting rod, a working beam and crank, or an oscillating cylinder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Turning like a
wheel ;rotary ;rotational .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sunday 26th April which will focus on the engineering aspects of the giant rotative beam engines that powered the pumps
Crossness dates M 2009
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Earth spherical and rotative what do you know about anything human us so brittle, each, delineated by skin.
Two poems from Margaret Christakos Lemon Hound 2007
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CONCEPT: Sitting on a rotative desk chair; spinning at different rhythms; indulging in the spinning; not sure of wanting/being able to stop; tied to the chair with no visible strings; playing hide and seek behind the chair; masturbating on the chair.
HIT'n'RUN 2007
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Earth spherical and rotative what do you know about anything human us so brittle, each, delineated by skin.
Archive 2007-07-01 Lemon Hound 2007
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The fans can be driven by electricity, diesel, petrol or any other rotative power source.
Chapter 5 1984
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From the first, the rotative engines were made double-acting -- that is, work was done by steam alternately in each end of the cylinder.
Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960
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Watt for nearly all the rotative engines that he built during the term of the "crank patents."
Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960
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It would be extremely difficult to explain the action of the rotative effects obtained in these wires under any other theory than that which I have advanced; and the absolute external neutrality that we obtain in them when the polarities are changing, we know, from their structure, to be perfectly symmetrical.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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It is simply necessary to add enough weight to the moving parts, that is, to the piston, piston rod, fly wheel, etc., to cut off early in the stroke and secure rotative speed with the most economical results and with the cheapest construction.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various
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The polar current reaches the surface on the borders of the trades with less rotative velocity than the surface, and is, therefore, met by the surface as a current partaking of both motions.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett
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