revolving

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adjective

moving around a central point.

Less commonScrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiverevolving (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemoving around a central point.
  2. not comparablebusinessRelating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of revolve
nounrevolving (plural revolvings)

plural revolvings

  1. The act of something that revolves or turns.

    The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.

    1867, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life, page 245
  2. The process where you either take an non-closing linear shape or a 2D shape, take a 3D axis as the pivot, and basically revolve the linear shape around the axis to get a 3D object. (e.g. taking a 2D triangle and turning it into a cone, taking a circle and turning it into a sphere, taking a long U-shape and turning it into a test tube object)

Translations

Bulgarian въртящ се
  • въртящ се (vărtjašt se)moving around a central point or axis
Esperanto turniĝanta
  • turniĝantamoving around a central point or axis
Māori hurihuri, takahurihuri
  • hurihurimoving around a central point or axis
  • takahurihurimoving around a central point or axis
Spanish giratorio, rotativo
  • giratoriomoving around a central point or axis
  • rotativofinance
  • rotatoriofinance
  • renovablefinance
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APA

revolving. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/revolving

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “revolving,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/revolving.

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