rotative

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They also create rotative engine discs by carving out large pieces of titanium and other metals.

From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2020

In fifth place, with 10% of the votes, was the Crossness Engine House, and the James Watt rotative beam engine.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2014

One form of apparatus for the propagation of rotative oscillations is shown to the left of Fig.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

I have fixed my mind upon making from twelve to fifteen reciprocating engines and fifty rotative engines per annum.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

From the first, the rotative engines were made double-acting—that is, work was done by steam alternately in each end of the cylinder.

From Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt by Ferguson, Eugene S.