rotative
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- Rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Adjective edit
rotative (comparative more rotative, superlative most rotative)
- Turning like a wheel; rotary; rotational.
- 1882, March 9, "On the Conservation of Solar Energy", Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Nature
- This high rotative velocity of the sun must cause an equatorial rise of the solar atmosphere.
- 1882, March 9, "On the Conservation of Solar Energy", Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Nature
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rotative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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rotative f (plural rotatives)
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rotative
Further reading edit
- “rotative”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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rotative
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rotative f