gyration
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dʒaɪˈɹeɪʃən/
gyration (plural gyrations)
- The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
- 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine (page 59)
- If you question a seaman on the subject, whether mere coaster or circumnavigator, he will tell you that in a snow-storm, because of its constant eddyings and gyrations, frequent trimming of sails is more necessary than in any other gale […]
- 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine (page 59)
- One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
- Appropriate arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex.
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