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US
/dʒaɪˈɹeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /dʒaɪɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /dʒaɪɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of rotating in a circle or spiral
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a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
the plane made three rotations before it crashed
the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year
How To Use gyration In A Sentence
- You can almost imagine him at the school dance as the wallflower, smiling a secret smile to himself as he watched the gyrations and romantic aspirations of others.
- The young women nearby give him plenty of space for his gyrations.
- Are you close to getting the idea of my shaftless gyrations. Step back from the hairbrush or I’ll shoot « BuzzMachine
- By keeping my head just above the control column, I could keep my eyes out of the glare and onto the gyrations of the instrument panel's flight indicator.
- No sooner had he begun his circular gyrations whilst beating his drum than a strange black cloud, more like smoke than water vapour, appeared over Waimate.
- The ingenious and learned M. Sauvage has mentioned other theories to account for the apparent circumgyration of objects in vertiginous people. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- O Mary! this is the land of congyration — The bell knolled when we were there — I saw lights, and heard lamentations. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- Instead he's playing to the girl's movements, creating an intricate pulsation of beats and cycles, hypnotized by every twirl and gyration.
- But viewers glued to their TV sets could hear the screaming studio audience come alive with each gyration. Devra Maza: Michael Jackson's Other Big Move: The Crotch-Grab
- In the late 1960s the postwar boom unraveled, giving way to a series of economic gyrations - inflation, slump, then stagflation and slump again.