Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or characterized by rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.
  • noun The doctrine of the composition of circular motions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.

Etymologies

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See trochilics.

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Examples

  • I particularly like the trochilic rotary stirling engine, low-input biofuel crops such as the use of jatropha in India, recent advances in automated plastics separation for recycling etc, and I'm watching developments in LED lighting closely as I don't like CFLs much at all ...

    Drobe Launchpad News 2009

  • I particularly like the trochilic rotary stirling engine, low-input biofuel crops such as the use of jatropha in India, recent advances in automated plastics separation for recycling etc, and I'm watching developments in LED lighting closely as I don't like CFLs much at all ...

    Drobe Launchpad News 2009

  • I particularly like the trochilic rotary stirling engine, low-input biofuel crops such as the use of jatropha in India, recent advances in automated plastics separation for recycling etc, and I'm watching developments in LED lighting closely as I don't like CFLs much at all ...

    Drobe Launchpad News 2009

  • I particularly like the trochilic rotary stirling engine, low-input biofuel crops such as the use of jatropha in India, recent advances in automated plastics separation for recycling etc, and I'm watching developments in LED lighting closely as I don't like CFLs much at all ...

    Drobe Launchpad News 2009

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