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Revolving

Re-volv′ing

,
Adj.
Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; – used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth.
But grief returns with the
revolving
year.
Shelley.
Revolving
seasons, fruitless as they pass.
Cowper.
Revolving firearm
.
See
Revolver
.
–
Revolving light
,
a light or lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals, either by being turned about an axis so as to show light only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally intercepted by a revolving screen.

Definition 2024

revolving

revolving

English

Verb

revolving

  1. present participle 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.

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