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rotarily

rotarily adverb: in a rotary fashion.

Adverb

rotarily (not comparable)

  1. In a rotary fashion.
    • Hence, if you want to act strongly with the fingers at one side of the hand, you must be careful to release the fore-arm rotarily in their direction, or even to exert it rotarily to help them.1928, T. Matthay, The first principles of pianoforte playing
    • We call such graphs "rotarily transitive graphs", and we show that, even though there is no finite rotarily transitive graph with at least 2 vertices, there is an infinite locally finite connected rotarily transitive graph.2016, Sébastien Martineau, “On rotarily transitive graphs”, in arXiv

Origin of rotarily

From rotary + -ly.

Questions about rotarily

What does rotarily mean?
Rotarily means in a rotary fashion.
What part of speech is rotarily?
Rotarily is an adverb.

Words near rotarily in the dictionary

  1. rotaprints
  2. Rotarian
  3. Rotarianism
  4. Rotarians
  5. rotaries
  6. rotarily
  7. rotarod
  8. rotarods
  9. rotary
  10. rotary beater
  11. rotary beaters

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