Meanings
adjectiverotatory (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of rotational.
It is also obvious, and proved by experiment, that the rotatory motions observed in the hand proceed from the rotatory motions of the radius.
1808, John Barclay, The Muscular Motions of the Human Body, →OCLC, page 396 - not comparableobsoletealternate or successive
unconnected, rotatory, biennial national assemblies
1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn
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