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Gyration

noun

A single complete turn (axial or orbital). Synonyms: revolution, rotation. "The revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"

The act of rotating in a circle or spiral. Synonym: whirling.

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Etymology 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

Words linked to "Gyration" : axial rotation, gyrate, turning, rotary motion, clockwise rotation, spin, roll, orbital motion, counterclockwise rotation, axial motion, turn, levorotation, orbital rotation, dextrorotation