Definitions for rotatory

rotatory ro·ta·to·ry

Spelling: [roh-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
IPA: /ˈroʊ təˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/

Rotatory is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in rotatory (aoorrtty).

Definitions for rotatory

adjective

  1. pertaining to or of the nature of rotation:
  2. rotating, as an object.
  3. passing or following in rotation or succession.
  4. causing rotation, as a muscle.

Origin of rotatory

1745-55; New Latin rotātōrius, equivalent to Latin rotā(re) (see rotate1) + -tōrius -tory1

Examples for rotatory

This machine takes the name of torno, from its rotatory motion.

Was it necessary, therefore, to suppose a second, a kind of rotatory movement?

The radius and ulna are not ankylosed, but are incapable of any rotatory movement.

The condition of the rotatory system might now be described as that of equilibrium.

That, as I understand it, is a stationary, while this is a rotatory system.

When dissolved in alcohol, it does not exhibit this change in rotatory power.

It will have a rotatory motion; and this it has been seen to have.

Individual men are like the separate links of a rotatory chain.

This was worked by a rotatory handle on the side of the gun.

In this rotatory motion they aid themselves by using the legs freely.

Word Value for rotatory
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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