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Circumrotation

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circumvolutionnounThe act of revolution, rotation or gyration around an axis.
circumgyrationnounrotation, revolution
rotationnoun(chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
circlingverbA circular motion.
cyclenounA process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
axis of rotationnounThe axis about which any body rotates.
gyrationnoun(also figuratively) The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.
gyrenoun(oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
orbitnounThe curved path of one object around a point or another body.
superrotationnouncirculation of winds (around a planet) at a velocity (or angular momentum) greater than that of the surface
axisnoun(geometry) An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry).
revolutionnoun(countable, politics) A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
rollnounThe act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
full circlenoun(idiomatic) Through a cycle of transition, returning to where one started after gaining experience or exploring other things.
circlenoun(geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
cyclorotationnoun(medicine) Torsional movement of the eye (rotational movement that does not shift the centre of the pupil).
turnnounA change of direction or orientation.
clino-rotationnounAlternative form of clinorotation. [rotation about an axis at so slow a rate that centrifugal force is so small as to be discounted]
clinorotationnounrotation about an axis at so slow a rate that centrifugal force is so small as to be discounted
circloidnoun(mathematics) A variant of a cycloid being the locus of a point on a circle that rolls around another circle

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