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Definition of Revolves
1. revolve [v] - See also: revolve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revolves
Literary usage of Revolves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"When the system revolves about 0 as center, the point p will have a linear velocity;
... Then, as 0 — p revolves about 0 with angular velocity W, ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1839)
"It is impossible to believe that the moon should revolve on her axis precisely
in the same average time as she revolves round the earth, without half a ..."
3. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus by William Smyth (1859)
"A curve revolves uniformly about a fixed axis ; suppose a body P ... Let AC be
the curve, AB the axis about which it revolves and which wo suppose to be ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... which revolves at a high speed on the plate C, also furnished with knives.
The engine is half filled with water and packed with the boiled rags. ..."
5. The Mechanics' Magazine (1856)
"THE moon's motion may be described, in one way among others, by saying that in
r;ich month she revolves about the earth nearly in one plane, turning always ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"When the four slots arc set in line, a flash of light is seen at the eyepiece
every revolution, and if the shaft revolves quickly enough the light will ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The roll or plug revolves at from 350 to 400 revolutions Thc pulp after being
prepared in the beating engine is run into per minute, and requires a power to ..."
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