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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



... jungles of green, this gyration, My centrifugal folly, Through roaring dust and futility spattered, Will find ...
— Some Imagist Poets - An Anthology • Richard Aldington
... tent of the emir, which first submitted to the blast, passed close to me, flying along with the velocity of the herie, while every other was either levelled to the ground or carried up into the air, and whirled about in mad gyration. ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Frederick Marryat
... scientific fact, that solar systems have a definite beginning in the gyration of nebulous matter, circling through vast fields of interstellar space, as the great nebula in Andromeda does at the present day. AEons upon aeons elapse, before the primary nebula consolidates into a solar system such ...
— The Law and the Word • Thomas Troward
... amount of rigid vertical steel is used; then the steel may be assumed to carry all the load, at the value customary in structural steel practice, the concrete being considered only in the light of fire-proofing and as affording lateral support to the steel, increasing its effective radius of gyration and thus its safe carrying capacity. In any event the load should be assumed to be carried either by the concrete or by the steel, and, if by the former, the longitudinal and transverse steel which is introduced should be regarded ...
— Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design • Edward Godfrey
... thick jungles of green, this gyration, My centrifugal folly, Through roaring dust and futility spattered, Will find ...
— Some Imagist Poets - An Anthology • Richard Aldington


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