gyration

gyration englannista suomeksi

1. pyöriminen

2. pyörähdys

0. Substantiivi

gyration englanniksi

1. The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.

(synonyms)

2. (RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica)

3. (RQ:Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing)

4. (RQ:Newton Opticks)

5. (RQ:Disraeli Tancred)

6. (quote-journal),(nb...)|month=March|year=1881|volume=XVI|issue=CLXXXII|page=59|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=SB4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA59|oclc=1013406766|passage=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, and that to steer a straight and steady course under such circumstances is for the time simply impossible.|footer=(small)'' (17 March 1881).

7. (RQ:Ouida Massarenes)

8. (quote-book)

9. (quote-journal)

10. A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation.

11. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.

12. The arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cortex of the brain.