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gyration.

The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/dʒaɪ(ə)ˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/Received-Pronunciation/ˌd͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/General-American

  1. The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.

    also · countable · figuratively · uncountable

  2. The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation. A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of rotational symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation.

    also · countable · figuratively · specifically · uncountable

  3. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.

    countable

  4. The arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex of the brain.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes). Gyre is from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre, the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”) (from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

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