rotatory en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ɹəʊˈteɪtəɹi/
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of rotational.
alt 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:
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(not-comparable, obsolete) alternate 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:
Deriveds
dextrorotatory · disrotatory · levorotatory · dextrotatory · sinistrorotatory · rotatory power · conrotatory · oculorotatory · rotatory nystagmus · optical rotatory dispersion · circumrotatory · postrotatory