revolving
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
revolve/rɪˈvɒlv/
▶verb
- 1 move in a circle on a central axis.
■ (revolve about/around) move in a circular orbit around.
- 2 (revolve around) treat as the most important aspect or element: her life revolved around her children.
- 3 consider repeatedly and from different angles.
– origin ME: from L. revolvere, from re- ‘back’ (also expressing intensive force) + volvere ‘roll’.
'revolving' also found in these Oxford entries:
alidade
- armillary sphere
- asynchronous
- binary
- blunge
- capstan
- capstan lathe
- carpet sweeper
- cement mixer
- dermabrasion
- dome
- door
- dumb waiter
- eccentric
- Ferris wheel
- flywheel
- grindstone
- headstock
- helicopter
- lazy Susan
- merry-go-round
- mirrorball
- noria
- pepperbox
- potter's wheel
- prayer wheel
- propeller
- revolution
- revolver
- revolving credit
- revolving door
- rotary
- roulette
- roundabout
- rowel
- skid
- slipstream
- sphere
- spin
- spin dryer
- swash plate
- thresh
- tippler
- tombola
- tumbling barrel
- turnstile
- turntable
- volution
- weathervane
- wheel
