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rotary
[ roh-tuh-ree ]
adjective
- turning or capable of turning around on an axis, as a wheel.
- taking place around an axis, as motion.
- having a part or parts that turn on an axis, as a machine.
noun
- a rotary device or machine.
- Chiefly Northeastern U.S. traffic circle.
- Also called rotary converter. Electricity. synchronous converter.
- (initial capital letter) Rotary Club.
rotary
/ ˈrəʊtərɪ /
adjective
- of, relating to, or operating by rotation
- turning or able to turn; revolving
noun
- a part of a machine that rotates about an axis
- a roundabout (for traffic)
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- un·rota·ry adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of rotary1
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Example Sentences
Inquiries will be accepted only via Western Union telegram or rotary phone.
Bob Bashara was a married Rotary Club president who lived in a ritzy Detroit suburb.
There's an old rotary phone and a few yellowed papers on a cluttered old wooden desk.
“I think for sure he will,” said Kit Jennings, treasurer of the Spartanburg Rotary Club, which Perry addressed Tuesday.
The thwap-thwap-thwap of rotary wings above triggered an intense reaction in Army trauma surgeon Dr. (Maj.) Tara Dixon.
The rotary tuner shown in the sketch was designed by a correspondent of Modern Electrics.
The Gnome rotary engine was first used with success at this meeting.
The first steam engine invented by Hero was a rotary engine, but it was of course, most uneconomical of steam.
They not unfrequently acquire a rotary movement, whereby the circumference attains a velocity of several miles per hour.
It is by this means that the reciprocating movement of the piston is transformed into a rotary motion of the crank-shaft.
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