physics The rate of change of the angular position of a rotating body; usually expressed in radians per second or radians per minute.
Roget 264:
motion,
movement,
move;
going
etc.
v.;
unrest.
stream,
flow,
flux,
run,
course,
stir;
evolution;
kinematics;
telekinesis.
step,
rate,
pace,
tread,
stride,
gait,
port,
footfall,
cadence,
carriage,
velocity,
angular velocity;
clip,
progress,
locomotion;
journey
etc.
266;
voyage
etc.
267;
transit
etc.
270.
restlessness
etc.
(changeableness)
149;
mobility;
movableness,
motive power;
laws of motion;
mobilization.
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Roget 312:
rotation,
revolution,
spinning,
gyration,
turning about an axis,
turning aound an axis,
circulation,
roll;
circumrotation†,
circumvolution,
circumgyration†;
volutation†,
circination†,
turbination†,
pirouette,
convolution.
verticity†,
whir,
whirl,
eddy,
vortex,
whirlpool,
gurge†;
countercurrent;
Maelstrom,
Charybdis;
Ixion.
[rotating air]
cyclone;
tornado,
whirlwind;
dust devil.
[rotation of an automobile]
spin-out.
axis,
axis of rotation,
swivel,
pivot,
pivot point;
axle,
spindle,
pin,
hinge,
pole,
arbor,
bobbin,
mandrel;
axle shaft;
gymbal;
hub,
hub of rotation.
[rotation and translation together]
helix,
helical motion.
[measure of rotation]
angular momentum,
angular velocity;
revolutions per minute,
RPM.
[result of rotation]
centrifugal force;
surge;
vertigo,
dizzy round;
coriolus force.
[things that go around]
carousel,
merry-go-round;
Ferris wheel;
top,
dreidel†,
teetotum;
gyroscope;
turntable,
lazy suzan;
screw,
whirligig,
rollingstone†,
water wheel,
windmill;
wheel,
pulley wheel,
roulette wheel,
potter's wheel,
pinwheel,
gear;
roller;
flywheel;
jack;
caster;
centrifuge,
ultracentrifuge,
bench centrifuge,
refrigerated centrifuge,
gas centrifuge,
microfuge;
drill,
augur,
oil rig;
wagon wheel,
wheel,
tire,
tyre [Brit.].
[Science of rotary motion]
trochilics†.
[person who rotates]
whirling dervish.
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Roget 244:
angularity,
angularness†;
aduncity†;
angle,
cusp,
bend;
fold
etc.
258;
notch
etc.
257;
fork,
bifurcation.
elbow,
knee,
knuckle,
ankle,
groin,
crotch,
crutch,
crane,
fluke,
scythe,
sickle,
zigzag,
kimbo†,
akimbo.
corner,
nook,
recess,
niche,
oriel [Arch.],
coign†.
right angle
etc.
(perpendicular)
216.1,
212;
obliquity
etc.
217;
angle of 45 degrees,
miter;
acute angle,
obtuse angle,
salient angle,
reentering angle,
spherical angle.
angular measurement,
angular elevation,
angular distance,
angular velocity;
trigonometry,
goniometry;
altimetry†;
clinometer,
graphometer†,
goniometer;
theodolite;
sextant,
quadrant;
dichotomy.
triangle,
trigon†,
wedge;
rectangle,
square,
lozenge,
diamond;
rhomb,
rhombus;
quadrangle,
quadrilateral;
parallelogram;
quadrature;
polygon,
pentagon,
hexagon,
heptagon,
octagon,
oxygon†,
decagon.
pyramid,
cone.
Platonic bodies;
cube,
rhomboid;
tetrahedron,
pentahedron,
hexahedron,
octahedron,
dodecahedron,
icosahedron,
eicosahedron;
prism,
pyramid;
parallelopiped;
curb roof,
gambrel roof,
mansard roof.
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