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Gyration   /dʒaɪrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Gyration  n.  
1.
The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution. "The gyrations of an ascending balloon." "If a burning coal be nimbly moved round in a circle, with gyrations continually repeated, the whole circle will appear like fire."
2.
(Zool.) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
Center of gyration. (Mech.) See under Center.
Radius of gyration, the distance between the axis of a rotating body and its center of gyration.





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"Gyration" Quotes from Famous Books



... blessed flame uttered the last word of its speech the holy mill-stone[1] began to rotate, and had not wholly turned in its gyration before another enclosed it with a circle, and matched motion with motion, song with song; song which in those sweet pipes so surpasses our Muses, our Sirens, as a primal splendor that which it reflects.[2] As two bows parallel and of like colors are turned across a thin ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise [Paradiso] • Dante Alighieri
... passed, certainly. I attended prayers, but my thoughts were elsewhere—how, indeed, could it be otherwise? Who can control his thoughts? He may attempt so to do, but the attempt is all that can be made. He cannot command them. I heard nothing, my mind was in a state of gyration, whirling round from one thing to the other, until I was ...
— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat
... eyes fixed on herself, and so mortified with the conviction that her husband was enjoying her discomfiture, that, with what haughtiness she could extemporize from consuming offense, she made a sudden vertical gyration, and walked ...
— Mary Marston • George MacDonald
... his feelings, as he regards the movements of the vultures. They are as those of one swimming in the sea amidst sharks. For, although the birds do not yet fly towards him, he knows they will soon be there. He sees them sailing in spiral curves, descending at each gyration, slowly but surely stooping lower, and coming nearer. He can hear the swish of their wings, like the sough of an approaching storm, with now and then a raucous utterance from their throats—the signal of some leader directing the ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid


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