rotative
Americanadjective
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rotating or pertaining to rotation.
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producing rotation.
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happening in regular succession.
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They also create rotative engine discs by carving out large pieces of titanium and other metals.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
In fifth place, with 10% of the votes, was the Crossness Engine House, and the James Watt rotative beam engine.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2014
When a high piston speed is obtained by great length of piston stroke, and not by high rotative speed, their use is less objectionable.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Let a cylindrical vessel, of any considerable magnitude, be partially filled with water, and let the rotative motion be communicated to the fluid, by passing a rod repeatedly through its mass, in a circular course.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
The movement of the earth on its axis is rotative.
From Aeroplanes by James Slough Zerbe
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