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81Whirl — Whirl, v. i. [1913 Webster] 1. To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate. The whirling year vainly my dizzy eyes pursue. J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster] The wooden engine flies and… …
82centripetal force — noun Date: 1686 the force that is necessary to keep an object moving in a curved path and that is directed inward toward the center of rotation < a string on the end of which a stone is whirled about exerts centripetal force on the stone >… …
83crown glass — noun Date: 1706 1. a glass blown and whirled into the form of a disk with a center lump left by the worker s rod 2. alkali lime silicate optical glass having relatively low refractive index and low dispersion value …
84pothole — noun Date: 1826 1. a. a circular hole formed in the rocky bed of a river by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water b. a sizable rounded often water filled depression in land 2. a pot shaped hole in a road surface 3. a… …
85rhombus — noun (plural rhombuses or rhombi) Etymology: Latin, from Greek rhombos piece of wood whirled on a string, lozenge, from rhembein to whirl Date: circa 1567 a parallelogram with four equal sides and sometimes one with no right angles …
86tumbling barrel — noun Date: circa 1890 a revolving cask in which objects or materials undergo a process (as drying or polishing) by being whirled about …
87gig — I. noun Etymology: Middle English gyge (in whyrlegyge whirligig), of unknown origin Date: 1570 1. something that whirls or is whirled: as a. obsolete top, whirligig b. a 3 digit selection in a numbers game 2. a person of odd or grotesque… …
88sling — I. transitive verb (slung; slinging) Etymology: Middle English, probably from Old Norse slyngva to hurl; akin to Old English & Old High German slingan to worm, twist, Lithuanian slinkti Date: 14th century 1. to cast with a sudden and usually… …
89Bucket argument — Isaac Newton s rotating bucket argument (also known as Newton s bucket ) was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies. It is one… …
90San Francisco Giants — 2012 San Francisco Giants season Established 1883 Based in San Francisco since 1958 …
