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English
Adjective
revolving (not comparable)
- moving around a central point.
- (finance) Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.
Derived terms
Translations
moving around a central point or axis
Verb
revolving
- present participle and gerund of revolve
Noun
revolving (plural revolvings)
- The act of something that revolves or turns.
1867, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life, page 245:The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.
- The process where you either take an non-closing linear shape or a 2D shape, take a 3D axis as the pivot, and basically revolve the linear shape around the axis to get a 3D object. (e.g. taking a 2D triangle and turning it into a cone, taking a circle and turning it into a sphere, taking a long U-shape and turning it into a test tube object)