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• circumvolution — circumvolutory /sur keuhm veuh looh teuh ree/, adj. /serr keuhm veuh looh sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of rolling or turning around: planetary circumvolution. 2. a single complete turn or cycle. 3. a winding or folding about something: the… …   Universalium

• cyclonic — Synonyms and related words: aerographic, aerologic, angry, baric, barographic, barometric, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, climatologic, cloudy, dirty, elemental, foul, gulfy, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, gyrostatic, high pressure, isobaric,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• gyrational — Synonyms and related words: ascending, axial, back, back flowing, backward, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, cyclonic, descending, down trending, downward, drifting, flowing, fluent, flying, going, gulfy, gyral, gyratory, gyrostatic, mounting,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• rotary — Synonyms and related words: O shaped, alternate, ambagious, ascending, axial, back, back flowing, backhanded, backward, beating, carrefour, circling, circuitous, circular, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, cloverleaf, crossing, crosspoint,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• vortical — Synonyms and related words: affluent, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, confluent, coursing, cyclonic, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, gulfy, gushing, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, gyrostatic, mazy, meandering,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• whirly — Synonyms and related words: circumgyratory, circumvolutory, cyclonic, gulfy, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, gyrostatic, rotary, rotational, rotatory, swirly, tornadic, trochilic, vertiginous, vortical, whirlabout, whirlblast, whirligig,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• revolving — (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Rotating] Syn. turning, spinning, whirling, gyrating, rolling, reeling, twirling, swirling, pirouetting, circling, orbiting, circuLating, encircling. 2. [Capable of rotating] Syn. rotatory, rotary, rotational, rotative,… …   English dictionary for students

• rotary — adj 1. rotating, rotational, revolving, turning, vertiginous; gyral, gyratory, gyrating, spinning; vortical, vorticose, vortiginous, whirling; cir cumrotatory, circumvolutory, circumgyratory. n 2. traffic circle, Brit. roundabout …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• circumvolute —   v.t. twist; wind round.    ♦ circumvolution, n. revolution; fold; circumlocution.    ♦ circumvolutory, a …   Dictionary of difficult words