Rotative

Word ROTATIVE
Character 8
Hyphenation ro ta tive
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Rotative"

What do we mean by rotative?

Of, relating to, causing, or characterized by rotation. adjective

Characterized by or occurring in alternation or succession. adjective

Causing something to rotate; producing rotation.

Pertaining to rotation; rotational.

Turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational. adjective

A steam engine in which the reciprocating motion of the piston is transformed into a continuous rotary motion, as by means of a connecting rod, a working beam and crank, or an oscillating cylinder. adjective

Turning like a wheel; rotary; rotational. adjective

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The word "rotative" in example sentences

Sunday 26th April which will focus on the engineering aspects of the giant rotative beam engines that powered the pumps ❋ M (2009)

Earth spherical and rotative what do you know about anything human us so brittle, each, delineated by skin. ❋ Lemon Hound (2007)

CONCEPT: Sitting on a rotative desk chair; spinning at different rhythms; indulging in the spinning; not sure of wanting/being able to stop; tied to the chair with no visible strings; playing hide and seek behind the chair; masturbating on the chair. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The fans can be driven by electricity, diesel, petrol or any other rotative power source. ❋ Unknown (1984)

From the first, the rotative engines were made double-acting -- that is, work was done by steam alternately in each end of the cylinder. ❋ Eugene S. Ferguson (1960)

Watt for nearly all the rotative engines that he built during the term of the "crank patents." ❋ Eugene S. Ferguson (1960)

It would be extremely difficult to explain the action of the rotative effects obtained in these wires under any other theory than that which I have advanced; and the absolute external neutrality that we obtain in them when the polarities are changing, we know, from their structure, to be perfectly symmetrical. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is simply necessary to add enough weight to the moving parts, that is, to the piston, piston rod, fly wheel, etc., to cut off early in the stroke and secure rotative speed with the most economical results and with the cheapest construction. ❋ Various (N/A)

The polar current reaches the surface on the borders of the trades with less rotative velocity than the surface, and is, therefore, met by the surface as a current partaking of both motions. ❋ T. Bassnett (N/A)

Professor Dove to the transfer of the equatorial portions to a higher latitude, by which the excess of its rotative velocity is made apparent, by outstripping the slower moving surface in its progress eastward. ❋ T. Bassnett (N/A)

The favorable economical effect of high rotative speed, ❋ Various (N/A)

One form of apparatus for the propagation of rotative oscillations is shown to the left of Fig. 3, and consists of a cylinder, A, mounted on ❋ Various (N/A)

Richards, in referring to that section of this patent which relates to rotary tools for woodcutting, quotes the inventor as saying: "The idea of adapting the rotative motion of a tool with more or less advantage, to give all sorts of substances any shape that may be required, is my own, and, as I believe, entirely new." ❋ Various (N/A)

The rotative apparatus shown is an immense affair, with a series of eight tall tanks arranged on a circular carriage and rotating on a vertical axis, so as to bring each in turn to the charging and discharging positions. ❋ Various (N/A)

The movement of the earth on its axis is rotative. ❋ Unknown (1915)

If the rotative speed of the earth should be retarded, all objects on the earth would be increased in weight, and if the motion should be accelerated objects would become lighter, and if sufficient speed should be attained all matter would fly off the surface, just as dirt dies off the rim of a wheel at certain speeds. ❋ Unknown (1915)

On October 25, 1781, he took out his third patent (the second of the steam-engine series), "for certain new methods of applying the vibrating or reciprocating motion of steam or fire engines, to produce a continued rotative motion round an axis or centre, and thereby to give motion to the wheels of mills or other machines." ❋ Unknown (1906)

The doctrine of 'the ages' [48] is so necessary to a true understanding of the rotative immortality offered as a substitute for the higher bliss of absorption (that is, genuine immortality), that an account of the teaching in this regard will not be out of place. ❋ Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)

Soon after which, John Steed, who was engineer at Wasborough's mill, took a patent for a rotative motion with a crank, and applied it to their engine. ❋ Andrew Carnegie (1877)

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