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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gyre /ˈdʒʌɪə, ˈgʌɪə/

▶verb literary whirl or gyrate. ▶noun

1 a spiral or vortex.

2 Geography a circular pattern of currents in an ocean basin.

– origin ME: from late L. gyrare, from L. gyrus ‘a ring’, from Gk guros.

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