rotatoryadj.n.

Brit.

/rə(ʊ)ˈteɪt(ə)ri/,

/ˈrəʊtət(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈroʊdəˌtɔri/

Forms: 1500s rotatorie, 1600s– rotatory.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin rotatorius; Latin Rotatoria.

Etymology: As adjective < post-classical Latin rotatorius (1564 or earlier) < classical Latin rotāt- , past participial stem of rotāre rotate v. + -ōrius -ory suffix². As noun < scientific Latin Rotatoria Rotatoria n.; compare slightly earlier Rotatoria n.

A. adj.

a. Of the nature of rotation or turning; connected with or relating to rotation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective]

rotatory1578

dinetical1646

vertiginous1663

dinetic1668

rotary1704

rotal1724

revolutionary1734

circumrotatory1744

rotative1747

rotatorial1755

verticillary1758

circumvolutionary1809

evolutionary1828

rotational1870

circumductory1872

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 10^v Those which in the thigh we call the Rotatorie Processes.

1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Table 93 sig. Aaa^v/1 B B, Two Process's..whereby the Rotatory Motion of the Head is Perform'd.

1722 E. Strother Diss. Ingraftment Small-pox 29 Heat is a various and rotatory Agitation of the insensible Particles contain'd in a Body, one against the other.

1777 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 266 A new Theory of the Rotatory Motion of Bodies affected by Forces disturbing such Motion.

1807 R. Patterson Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (rev. ed.) III. xxxii. 308 The obstacles in the rough road cause this rotatory motion in the wheel.

1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. I. 145 A rotatory movement at the hip-joint.

1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 22 The theory of the rotatory polarisation of quartz.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. iii. 43 Measurements of their optical rotatory power and of their rotatory dispersion are..important for identifying and estimating them.

2002 J. C. Polkinghorne Quantum Theory i. 12 The proposal related to angular momentum, a measure of the electron's rotatory motion.

b. Rotating; able to rotate or to be rotated; working by means of rotation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > operating by means of rotation

rotary1704

rotatory1747

1747 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 526/2 A rotatory axis furnish'd with fans for making a wind, by turning in a drum.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Gin,..3. A pump worked by rotatory sails.

1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Dec. 423 An overshot wheel eighteen feet in diameter,..communicating its motion to the lathes and other rotatory engines of the manufactory.

1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 86 Pure child of Chance, which still directs the ball As rotatory atoms rise or fall.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 67 The track of five..rotatory storms.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains ii. 93 Urging their horses with cries..and cruel rotatory spurs.

1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xxxvi. 385 Its patients were under treatment..with leg-locks and surprise-baths, and rotatory chairs.

1997 Jrnl. Coastal Res. 13 201/1 The currents here are rotatory.

c. Zoology. Designating organs which appear to rotate, or which cause rotation in the surrounding medium, esp. the oral cilia of peritrich ciliates and the ciliary corona of rotifers. Now rare.Waves of movement in circular or nearly-circular arrays of cilia make them appear to revolve like a wheel when viewed in a microscope (cf. wheel-animal n. at wheel n. Compounds 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > causing rotation

rotatory1787

rotating1794

1787 G. Adams Ess. Microscope 608 Vorticella... A worm capable of contracting or extending itself, naked, with rotatory cilia... The continual motion into which it [sc. Vorticella viridis] puts the water gives room to suspect that it is furnished with an invisible rotatory instrument.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 444 Rotatory organ quadrilobed.

1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby xxxiii. 307 The rotatory cilia are set on the inner surface of the disk.

1884 Proc. Acad. Net. Sci. Philadelphia 36 295/1 Instead of rotatory organs, this rotifer possesses a membraneous cup or net.

1903 Bull. N.Y. State Mus. Aug. 412 Meinert speaks of this as a whorl, or rotatory organ, as he believes that it is by the vibrations of these bristles that the food is directed into the mouth.

2005 W. H. Ahlrichs in K. Rohde Marine Parasitol. v. 212 Proales gonothyraeae..has an almost ventral rotatory organ.

2. Recurring in rotation; rotational.In quot. 1946 with punning allusion to sense A. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > alternation > rotation > [adjective]

rotary1758

rotatory1766

rotative1771

rotational1788

rotating1854

1766 Man of Abilities 12 He..for a considerable series of years enjoyed a rotatory succession of the first and most lucrative places under the crown.

1790 E. Burke French Revol. 267 All this will be still more applicable to the unconnected, rotatory, biennial national assemblies, in this absurd and senseless constitution.

1824 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 103 193 This principle of frequent rotatory election.

1831 W. Godwin Thoughts Man 97 I become..wearied with the repetition of rotatory acts and every-day occurrences.

1879 Nation 2 Jan. 7/2 By giving the appointment of the Indian agents (hitherto political and rotatory in character) to the religious societies..he [sc. General Grant] managed to incorporate into our Indian system.

1909 Times 16 Feb. 5/2 This is no deviation from the practice of the rotatory training of reservists adopted last October.

1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes xi. 119 Is Miss Rouse still practising rotatory travelling?

2008 Health Situation in S. E. Asia Region (World Health Organization) v. 122 Bangladesh and Maldives have rotatory textual health warnings.

B. n.

Zoology. A minute or microscopic animal of the class or phylum Rotatoria; = rotatorian n. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Rotifera > [noun] > member of

rotifer1777

wheel-animal1788

wheel-insect1800

wheel-animalcule1834

rotatory1835

rotator1854

rotatorian1861

wheel-bearer1861

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. iv. 154 The Rotatories, to which the wheel-animalcules belong.

1899 J. Hjort et al. Rep. Norwegian Marine Invest. 1895–7 12/1 Crustaceæ, rotatories, and other dwellers of the ponds..form encysted resting stadia.

1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xx. 300 A deep water belt, with an abundance of plankton..as well as animal organisms (Crustaceans and Rotatories).

Compounds

rotatory power n. Physical Chemistry the capacity of a substance to cause rotation of the plane of polarization when plane-polarized light is passed through it; spec. the angle displacement per unit distance travelled by the light through the substance; more fully optical rotatory power; cf. rotation n. 5.specific rotatory power: see the first element.

ΚΠ

1821 Brit. Critic 16 503 We think the exception completely overthrows M. Biot's hypothesis of the rotatory power being absolutely inherent in the ultimate particles of matter.

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 920 The diversities of character exhibited by turpentine-oils..relate chiefly to the specific gravity, boiling-point, and optical rotatory power.

1913 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 88 439 The effect was attributed to an increase in the optical rotatory power of the sugars by the acid.

2005 G. Chartier Introd. Optics v. 203 The rotatory power of quartz has a specially high value of the order of 20°/mm.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	rotatory
释义	rotatoryadj.n. Brit. /rə(ʊ)ˈteɪt(ə)ri/, /ˈrəʊtət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈroʊdəˌtɔri/ Forms: 1500s rotatorie, 1600s– rotatory. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin rotatorius; Latin Rotatoria. Etymology: As adjective < post-classical Latin rotatorius (1564 or earlier) < classical Latin rotāt- , past participial stem of rotāre rotate v. + -ōrius -ory suffix². As noun < scientific Latin Rotatoria Rotatoria n.; compare slightly earlier Rotatoria n. A. adj. 1. a. Of the nature of rotation or turning; connected with or relating to rotation. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] rotatory1578 dinetical1646 vertiginous1663 dinetic1668 rotary1704 rotal1724 revolutionary1734 circumrotatory1744 rotative1747 rotatorial1755 verticillary1758 circumvolutionary1809 evolutionary1828 rotational1870 circumductory1872 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 10^v Those which in the thigh we call the Rotatorie Processes. 1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Table 93 sig. Aaa^v/1 B B, Two Process's..whereby the Rotatory Motion of the Head is Perform'd. 1722 E. Strother Diss. Ingraftment Small-pox 29 Heat is a various and rotatory Agitation of the insensible Particles contain'd in a Body, one against the other. 1777 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 266 A new Theory of the Rotatory Motion of Bodies affected by Forces disturbing such Motion. 1807 R. Patterson Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (rev. ed.) III. xxxii. 308 The obstacles in the rough road cause this rotatory motion in the wheel. 1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. I. 145 A rotatory movement at the hip-joint. 1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 22 The theory of the rotatory polarisation of quartz. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. iii. 43 Measurements of their optical rotatory power and of their rotatory dispersion are..important for identifying and estimating them. 2002 J. C. Polkinghorne Quantum Theory i. 12 The proposal related to angular momentum, a measure of the electron's rotatory motion. b. Rotating; able to rotate or to be rotated; working by means of rotation. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > operating by means of rotation rotary1704 rotatory1747 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 526/2 A rotatory axis furnish'd with fans for making a wind, by turning in a drum. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Gin,..3. A pump worked by rotatory sails. 1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Dec. 423 An overshot wheel eighteen feet in diameter,..communicating its motion to the lathes and other rotatory engines of the manufactory. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 86 Pure child of Chance, which still directs the ball As rotatory atoms rise or fall. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 67 The track of five..rotatory storms. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains ii. 93 Urging their horses with cries..and cruel rotatory spurs. 1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xxxvi. 385 Its patients were under treatment..with leg-locks and surprise-baths, and rotatory chairs. 1997 Jrnl. Coastal Res. 13 201/1 The currents here are rotatory. c. Zoology. Designating organs which appear to rotate, or which cause rotation in the surrounding medium, esp. the oral cilia of peritrich ciliates and the ciliary corona of rotifers. Now rare.Waves of movement in circular or nearly-circular arrays of cilia make them appear to revolve like a wheel when viewed in a microscope (cf. wheel-animal n. at wheel n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > causing rotation rotatory1787 rotating1794 1787 G. Adams Ess. Microscope 608 Vorticella... A worm capable of contracting or extending itself, naked, with rotatory cilia... The continual motion into which it [sc. Vorticella viridis] puts the water gives room to suspect that it is furnished with an invisible rotatory instrument. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 444 Rotatory organ quadrilobed. 1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby xxxiii. 307 The rotatory cilia are set on the inner surface of the disk. 1884 Proc. Acad. Net. Sci. Philadelphia 36 295/1 Instead of rotatory organs, this rotifer possesses a membraneous cup or net. 1903 Bull. N.Y. State Mus. Aug. 412 Meinert speaks of this as a whorl, or rotatory organ, as he believes that it is by the vibrations of these bristles that the food is directed into the mouth. 2005 W. H. Ahlrichs in K. Rohde Marine Parasitol. v. 212 Proales gonothyraeae..has an almost ventral rotatory organ. 2. Recurring in rotation; rotational.In quot. 1946 with punning allusion to sense A. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > rotation > [adjective] rotary1758 rotatory1766 rotative1771 rotational1788 rotating1854 1766 Man of Abilities 12 He..for a considerable series of years enjoyed a rotatory succession of the first and most lucrative places under the crown. 1790 E. Burke French Revol. 267 All this will be still more applicable to the unconnected, rotatory, biennial national assemblies, in this absurd and senseless constitution. 1824 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 103 193 This principle of frequent rotatory election. 1831 W. Godwin Thoughts Man 97 I become..wearied with the repetition of rotatory acts and every-day occurrences. 1879 Nation 2 Jan. 7/2 By giving the appointment of the Indian agents (hitherto political and rotatory in character) to the religious societies..he [sc. General Grant] managed to incorporate into our Indian system. 1909 Times 16 Feb. 5/2 This is no deviation from the practice of the rotatory training of reservists adopted last October. 1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes xi. 119 Is Miss Rouse still practising rotatory travelling? 2008 Health Situation in S. E. Asia Region (World Health Organization) v. 122 Bangladesh and Maldives have rotatory textual health warnings. B. n. Zoology. A minute or microscopic animal of the class or phylum Rotatoria; = rotatorian n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Rotifera > [noun] > member of rotifer1777 wheel-animal1788 wheel-insect1800 wheel-animalcule1834 rotatory1835 rotator1854 rotatorian1861 wheel-bearer1861 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. iv. 154 The Rotatories, to which the wheel-animalcules belong. 1899 J. Hjort et al. Rep. Norwegian Marine Invest. 1895–7 12/1 Crustaceæ, rotatories, and other dwellers of the ponds..form encysted resting stadia. 1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xx. 300 A deep water belt, with an abundance of plankton..as well as animal organisms (Crustaceans and Rotatories). Compounds rotatory power n. Physical Chemistry the capacity of a substance to cause rotation of the plane of polarization when plane-polarized light is passed through it; spec. the angle displacement per unit distance travelled by the light through the substance; more fully optical rotatory power; cf. rotation n. 5.specific rotatory power: see the first element. ΚΠ 1821 Brit. Critic 16 503 We think the exception completely overthrows M. Biot's hypothesis of the rotatory power being absolutely inherent in the ultimate particles of matter. 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 920 The diversities of character exhibited by turpentine-oils..relate chiefly to the specific gravity, boiling-point, and optical rotatory power. 1913 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 88 439 The effect was attributed to an increase in the optical rotatory power of the sugars by the acid. 2005 G. Chartier Introd. Optics v. 203 The rotatory power of quartz has a specially high value of the order of 20°/mm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1578
随便看	θ42073 θ42074 θ42075 θ42076 θ42077 θ42078 θ42079 θ4208 θ42080 θ42081 θ42082 θ42083 θ42084 θ42085 θ42086 θ42087 θ42088 θ42089 θ4209 θ42090 θ42091 θ42092 θ42093 θ42094 θ42095