Definition of Gyres

1. Noun. (plural of gyre) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gyres

1. gyre [v] - See also: gyre

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gyres

gyrations
gyraton
gyrator
gyratories
gyrators
gyratory
gyratory crusher
gyre
gyrectomy
gyred
gyreful
gyrencephala
gyrencephalic
gyrene
gyrenes
gyres (current term)
gyrfalcon
gyrfalcons
gyri
gyri breves insulae
gyri insulae
gyri orbitales
gyri temporales transversi
gyrinal
gyring
gyrland
gyrlands
gyro
gyro-stabilizer
gyro-stabilizers

Literary usage of Gyres

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"Arrested and Aberrant Development of Fissures and gyres—Importance of the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of the Brain—Some Points from the Brains of the ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"Arrested and Aberrant Development of Fissures and gyres—Importance of the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of the Brain—Some Points from the Brains of the ..."

3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"About whom, the exultant starry fires Dance nimbly round in everlasting gyres. For this sense of the third and fourth verses, which we think the words will ..."

4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"About whom, the exultant starry fires Dance nimbly round in everlasting gyres. For this sense of the third and fourth verses, which we think the words will ..."

5. Principles of Physiological Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904)
"separate gyres. Moreover, it frequently happens that several of these groups ... The consequence is that most of the gyres come to lie in the depth of the ..."

6. Whole Life Cycle of Chromosomes and Their Coiling Systems: Transactions, APS by L. R. Cleveland (2008)
"This is brought about by a duplication of the chromosome in the same direction as that of the gyres of its minor coils. Verification of this, in addition to ..."

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