gyratory
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gyratory
First recorded in 1810–20; gyrat(ion) + -ory 1
Example Sentences
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Activists have also blocked Wandsworth Bridge, Arnos Grove and the Hanger Lane gyratory, the group says.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2021
Dr Malik Saleh, a dentist stuck at the Hanger Lane gyratory, has been forced to cancel appointments.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2021
Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that can't decide whether to plunge suicidally earthward or whiz away toward Mars.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no help for it; they could do nothing to arrest the gyratory movement of the raft; it turned round with dizzying rapidity, and drifted out of its course.
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne
Thus, very probably, they will have more than once seen the camphor remain immovable when placed in vessels in which they had hoped to be able to see it undergo its gyratory and other motions.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various
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