rotatory
adj/ɹəʊˈteɪtəɹi/
1
Alternative Alternative form of rotational.
- It is also obvious, and proved by experiment, that the rotatory motions observed in the hand proceed from the rotatory motions of the radius.1808, John Barclay, The Muscular Motions of the Human Body, →OCLC, page 396:
2
Obsolete alternate or successive
- unconnected, rotatory, biennial national assemblies1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- circumrotatory, conrotatory, dextrorotatory, dextrotatory, disrotatory, levorotatory, oculorotatory, optical rotatory dispersion, postrotatory, rotatory nystagmus, rotatory power, sinistrorotatory
- Related terms
- rotary