revolving

English

Adjective

revolving (not comparable)

1. moving around a central point.
2. (finance) Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.

Derived terms

• revolving chair
• revolving credit
• revolving door
• revolving loan

 

Translations

moving around a central point or axis

• Bulgarian: въртящ се (vǎrtjašt se)
• Maori: hurihuri, takahurihuri

Verb

revolving

1. present participle and gerund of revolve

Noun

revolving (plural revolvings)

1. The act of something that revolves or turns.
   • 1867, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life, page 245:

     The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.