Rotary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, causing, or characterized by rotation, especially axial rotation.
  • n. A part or device that rotates around an axis.
  • n. Chiefly New England See traffic circle.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having or being capable of having rotation.
  • n. A traffic circle.
  • n. Usually with a capital initial, short for Rotary movement, an international club for community service.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rotating; turning round and round, as a wheel on its axis; having or characterized by rotation: as, rotary animalcules; rotary motion.
  • Acting or held in rotation, as officers or an office; turn-about; rotating.
  • In metal-working, a serrated rotary steel tool used on a mandrel in a lathe for operating upon a piece of metal presented to it and fed toward it on a slide-rest or other analogous movable support.
  • In wood-working: A rotary chisel-edged cutter fastened to a cutter-head, or one of a gang of cutters so attached, used to cut away superfluous wood in shaping irregular forms, as in the manufacture of hames for harness, of fellies for wagon-wheels, of curved chair-legs, etc. A solid steel tool having rotating cutting edges, in the nature of a burring-tool or router, used in carving-machines for cutting ornamental figures in intaglio. In working upon wood with rotary cutters, the cutter-head shafts or cutter-spindles are sometimes carried by movable bearings, and guided after the manner of a tracing-point or stylus in a pantograph. In other machines the bearings of the cutter-head shafts or spindles are stationary, and the work is itself guided and moved to produce the required shape or pattern. See bur, 4 , and router. Compare also shaper and shaping-machine.
  • A valve which makes complete and successive revolutions, thus alternately bringing its port or ports into continuity and discontinuity with a port or ports in its seat. This kind of valve has been but little used.
  • n. In electricity, a rotary converter.
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  • n. electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that converts alternating to direct current or vice versa
  • n. a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
  • adj. relating to or characterized by rotation
  • adj. describing a circle; moving in a circle
    • Equivalent
    cyclic    cyclical   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    electrical converter    junction   
    Cross Reference
    circular    rotary blower    rotary fan    rotary puddler    rotary battery   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rotatory   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    coterie    notary   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pneumatic    high-speed    radial    electric    ultrasonic   
     
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