Word Meanings - WHEELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Circular; suitable to rotation.

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• CIRCULARLY
  In a circular manner.
• CIRCULAR
  1. In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round. 2. repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning. 3. Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean;
• CIRCULARITY
  The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
• ROTATION
  1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• CIRCULARISE
  1. to canvass by distributing letters. Syn. -- circularize. 2. to distribute circulars to. Syn. -- circularize. 3. to to pass around, as information. Syn. -- circulate, circularize, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse,
• CIRCULARY
  Circular; illogical. "Cross and circulary speeches." Hooker.
• LEVOROTATION
  Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.
• CONTRAROTATION
  Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.
• SUBCIRCULAR
  Nearly circular.
• CIRCUMROTATION
  The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round. J. Gregory.
• SEMICIRCULAR
  Having the form of half of a circle. Addison. Semicircular canals , certain canals of the inner ear. See under Ear.
• INSUITABLE
  Unsuitable. -- In*suit`a*bil"i*ty, n.
• IRROTATIONAL
  Not rotatory; passing from one point to another by a movement other than rotation; -- said of the movement of parts of a liquid or yielding mass. Sir W. Thomson.