rotatory

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So, when it comes to rotating players, is it really any wonder that managers are increasingly choosing to use domestic cup competitions as rotatory playgrounds?

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Following Stroke.—This is putting a rotatory motion on a ball, causing it to spin on a horizontal axis forwards instead of backwards.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

They exhibit rotatory or oscillatory movements, especially observed when a drop of water is added to the fluid.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Campbell and Moore have found spectroscopic evidence of internal rotatory motion in a large proportion of the planetary nebul�.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

In each of the foregoing cases the ball is made to take, after striking another ball, or a cushion, a direction different from that which it would take did no such rotatory motion exist.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis