noun
definition
A swirling vortex.
definition
A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current.
definition
A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
verb
definition
To whirl
Examples of gyre in a Sentence
The main focus of the project is the sub-tropical gyre.
Water in the subpolar gyre cooled between the two 20-year periods due to the decrease in surface heat input.
These include local wave climate; sources of sediment feed and the role of coastline orientation in creating an anticlockwise tidal gyre.
The Kapitan Khlebnikov continues north into Baffin Bay, battling the notorious gyre (circular current) of ice that thwarted early whalers.
This propagates around the Pacific sub-polar gyre and warms up whole gyre.
The more imaginative, elfin quality, familiar in Dunbar's Ballad of Kynd Kittok and his Interlude of the Droichis Part appears in such pieces as Gyre Carling (the mother-witch), King Berdok, and Lichtounis Dreme.