gyration

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gyration

/dʒaɪ(ə)ˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ UK
/ˌd͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ US

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Where it comes from

From gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes). Gyre is from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre, the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”) (from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

noun gyrations

also, countable, figuratively, uncountable The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation. Novv that the ayre impelled returnes unto its place in a gyration or vvhirling, is evident from the Atomes or moates in the Sun. For vvhen the Sunne ſo enters a hole or vvindovv, that by its illumination the Atomes or moates become perceptible, if then by our breath the ayre bee gently impelled, it
Similar: circumvolution, spinning, wheeling
also, countable, figuratively, specifically, uncountable A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of rotational symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation.
Similar: circumvolution, spinning, wheeling
countable One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
countable, uncountable The arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex of the brain.

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noun act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre — see also rotation

Español	giración
Français	giration
Română	girație

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@misc{gyration_2026,
  title = {gyration},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gyration},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}