noun
definition
A traffic circle.
definition
(chiefly with initial capital) Any of the clubs making up the international Rotary International movement for community service.
adjective
definition
Capable of rotation.
example
A rotary engine revolves the heads rather than having pistons go back and forth.
Examples of rotary in a Sentence
The quern with rotary motion is late Roman,, and still used by Arabs.
There is an outdoor drying area with rotary drier.
The gun was also different; the biggest of the rotary cannon.
We also need lacing eyes for bow and stern fenders and Maureen wants a socket for a Rotary drier.
The reason is that they used an inline injector pump rather than the rotary type.
Rotary Furnaces The Holwell site was later expanded to include a foundry to cast the pig iron produced by the furnaces.
From the river it is possible to see the three large rotary kilns which are exposed to the elements for most of their length.
During use the first thing which was apparent was the change in sound from the TC discharge when compared to my equally spaced rotary.
Use a rotary cutter to trim the blocks to the same size.
For upgrades and where internal space is at a premium, a lever arm rotary damper can be adopted.
The Deluxe Vari kennel has rotary dial latches for easier assembly, rotary door locks for easier latching and wire doors finished in black.
Increasing the forward speed of the rotary hoes does not improve the level of weed control.
Turbomachinery.. Gas is driven by high speed impellers rotating in confined case Rotary Machines.
The Fan Mate has a small rotary knob which can be turned in either direction, to raise or lower the fan speed.
Cylinder lawn mowers, rotary lawn mowers and hover lawn mowers covered in both the gasoline and electric varieties.
Large, uneven lawns require a rotary lawn mower.
The tool can be operated by both handles (or by the top handle alone ), using a rotary motion.
The engine used a conical rotary valve made from pure boron nitride.
The fascia houses six rotary encoders for adjusting parameters in real time, while 14 buttons and a chunky data wheel complete the controls.
Rotary's objectives are mainly philanthropic social and international, each club having an overseas contact club.
Internationally, Rotary has been responsible for raising millions of pounds for such projects as eliminating polio throughout the world.
Topics will include rotary querns from North Africa, deposition of querns in South West England, and ground stone tools from Greece.
I suspect the maker had used a rotary rasp to do this.
No, the public can join the rotary or volunteer with an agency.
This same finish is given to all key controls, which are now rotary in function.
Its wide range of piling techniques includes rotary bored, CFA, precast driven and retaining wall piling.
All Rotarians are being encouraged to give a minimum of 10 hours of volunteer rotary service in keeping with their professional or vocational skills.
The F220 series are the most sophisticated rotary heat sealers that are available at the moment.
The machine's sample rate is adjusted by using a rotary selector on the rear panel.
The rotary selector switch to the right was the monitor selector switch to the right was the monitor selector.
Master apical preparations created with rotary nickel titanium instruments run a risk of instrument fracture, irrespective of their size.
Mink MM rotary lobe vacuum pumps are directly driven by a flanged motor; the two lobes are synchronized by a gear.
Cossart valve-gear Valve gear with four piston valves per cylinder operated by rotary cams.
For example Raps in 1893 described an automatic arrangement to be used in connexion with a Tdpler pump; whilst in 1893 Schulze-Berge devised a rotary form.
Rotary machines, printing from an endless web of paper from curved stereotype or electrotype plates, principally used XXII.
In rotary printing from the curved stereotype plate and from the endless web of paper much can be done to assist the printer if good stereotype plates are supplied to him, and, if the forme contains any illustrations, both the artist and the engraver can help him if they keep in mind the particular character of illustration which they are preparing for the press.
The introduction of the autoplate is of great advantage to those using rotary presses, because it allows the production of a large number of duplicate stereotype plates of satisfactory quality speedily.
Absence of rotary power when asymmetric carbon atoms are present, may be caused by an internal compensation within the molecule as with the inactive tartaric acid (mesotartaric acid), or may be due to the fact that the compound is an equimolecular mixture of leftand right-hand varieties, this being the case with racemic acid that was broken by Louis Pasteur into laevoand dextro-tartaric acid (see Stereo-Isomerism).
Rotary querns have a circular upper stone that was rotated on a base stone, with the corn ground between the two.
The eccentric is used to convert the rotary motion of the crank axle into the reciprocating motion required to operate the valve.
This flywheel merely served to maintain smooth rotary motion; the engine actually actuated a pair of reciprocating ram pumps.
Wide static gaps, Resonant charging does not only apply to systems incorporating a rotary spark gap.
No, the public can join the Rotary or volunteer with an agency.
Their steel deck rotary mowers are very popular for the medium sized garden.
Each channel accepts digital input as an index input for a rotary encoder or as a home sensor input for a linear encoder.
The extract was centrifuged, and the pale-yellow ethereal solution evaporated under reduced pressure in a rotary evaporator.
All Rotarians are being encouraged to give a minimum of 10 hours of volunteer Rotary service in keeping with their professional or vocational skills.
Products include rotary, injection extraction, tub and upright vacuums and scrubber dryers.
The machine 's sample rate is adjusted by using a rotary selector on the rear panel.
The rotary selector switch to the right was the monitor selector.