Revolving

Quick meaning: Revolving is an adjective meaning moving around a central point.

Meaning

moving around a central point.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of revolve
2. The act of something that revolves or turns.
3. (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.
4. The process where you either take an non-closing linear shape or a 2D shape, take a 3D axis as the pivot, and basically revolve the linear shape around the axis to get a 3D object. (e.g. taking a 2D triangle and turning it into a cone, taking a circle and turning it into a sphere, taking a long U-shape and turning it into a test tube object)

Example Sentences

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

Word Forms

• revolvings

Synonyms for revolving

Depending on context, synonyms include moving, turning, rotating, wheeling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rotating, turning, moving, wheeling, rotatory, rotation.

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