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revolving

revolving adjective: moving around a central point. Also the present participle and gerund of revolve.

Adjective

revolving (not comparable)

  1. moving around a central point.
  2. 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.

Noun

revolving (plural revolvings)

  1. The act of something that revolves or turns.
    • The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.1867, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life, page 245
  2. 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)

Also used as

revolving is also the present participle and gerund of revolve.

revolving meaning in Odia

revolving in Odia

ଘୂର୍ଣ୍ଣାଯ଼ମାନ

Examples of revolving in a sentence

  • Molly's myriorama fuses these elements— spectacle and drama, commentary and song— in her complex, revolving mental kaleidescope.
  • Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast.
  • The panarama's like being inside a videodrome of revolving landscapes by Thomas Moran.

All 29 example sentences with revolving

Forms of revolving

pluralrevolvings

Words formed from revolving

Phrases with revolving

Questions about revolving

What does revolving mean?
Revolving means moving around a central point.
What is revolving in Odia?
Revolving in Odia is ଘୂର୍ଣ୍ଣାଯ଼ମାନ. See Revolving meaning in Odia.
What part of speech is revolving?
Revolving can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near revolving in the dictionary

  1. revolvers
  2. revolves
  3. revolves around
  4. revolvest
  5. revolveth
  6. revolving
  7. revolving around
  8. revolving chair
  9. revolving chairs
  10. revolving credit
  11. revolving door

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Adapted from Wiktionary: revolving (page history and authors); revolving (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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