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NOUN
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
How To Use gyre In A Sentence
- Such a pattern is reflected in the word's etymology: "girandole" can be traced back, by way of French and Italian, to the Latin word "gyrus," meaning "gyre" or "a circular or spiral motion or form. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
- Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. fnxtr Cornelius Hunter and the Mystery of the Missing Scientific Theory - The Panda's Thumb
- Much of it floats in the North Pacific gyre, a becalmed patch of the ocean that covers a greater area than North America and now resembles a vast plastic soup.
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- The gyre we planned to survey is one of the largest ocean realms on Earth, and one of five major subtropical gyres on the planet.
- Rivers of plastic objects are carried by great ocean currents from North America, Japan, and other lands along the North Pacific rim into the gyre.
- The superior frontal gyrus (gyrus frontalis superior; superfrontal gyre) is situated above the superior frontal sulcus and is continued on to the medial surface of the hemisphere. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
- In contrast, resuspension of ephippia was inversely related to water column depth and spatially complex, influenced by waves, coastal currents, and offshore gyre circulation.
- As if that were not enough to ensure the longevity of refreshingly ordinary words like clockwise, further along the avenues of science we come across the adjectives dextrorotatory or dextrorotatary, dextrogyrous, dextrogyrate and dextrogyre. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
- Each subtropical gyre is created by mountainous flows of air moving from the tropics toward the polar regions.