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Example sentences for "circular motion"

  • The hammer should be swung with a circular motion, always away from the centre of the back.

  • If the pile of the leather is too rough, it can be reduced with a piece of pumice stone, by rubbing the stone on the calf with a circular motion.

  • The bread may be used in a circular motion; and if a book be cleaned from dust by this means without pulling to pieces, all crumbs must be brushed away from the back very carefully before closing the book.

  • A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.

  • Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.

  • Defn: A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.

  • If then the body rotating in a circle be fire or any of the other elements, its natural mode of motion must be opposite to circular motion.

  • The use of the crank is to obtain a circular motion from a reciprocating motion?

  • To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion.

  • To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.

  • At last he thought of giving up the idea of uniform circular motion, and of trying varying circular motion, say inversely as its distance from the sun.

  • In circular motion, these two forces constantly balance each other; otherwise it is evident that the revolving body must either approach the centre or recede from it, according as the one or the other prevailed.

  • The joint pins of the links of the two chains worked in teeth at the opposite sides of a cog wheel, to which they imparted a circular motion, first by one chain, and then by the other, acting alternately on opposite sides of the wheel.

  • The motion, however, required to be produced, was a circular motion--a motion of rotation around the axis or shaft of the mill.

  • Of necessity," says Aristotle, "there exists a simple body whose very nature it is to be borne on in circular motion.

  • Each of the celestial spheres revolves with simple circular motion in one direction forever.

  • Thus, too, generation here below and, in like manner, the arising of tempests and meteors result from the circular motion of the sun, his approach and recession.

  • Sperança, maintaineth it selfe, by circular motion, which is all one in nature, with Motus ab Oriente in Occidentem.

  • Marginal note: The sea doth euermore performe this circular motion, either in Suprema, or concaua superficie aquæ.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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