Crossword clues for rotatory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rotatory \Ro"ta*to*ry\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A rotifer. [R.]
--Kirby.
Rotatory \Ro"ta*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. rotatoire. See Rotate, Rotary.]
Turning as on an axis; rotary.
Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles.
--Burke.(Opt.) Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization.
--Nichol.
Wiktionary
a. 1 of, pertaining to, or causing rotation 2 alternate or successive
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or causing rotation
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "rotatory".
And the only difference between the two drugs as far as detection goes is that, when viewed through an optical rotatory device called a polarimeter, dextromethorphan rotates light to the right, and levomethorphan rotates light to the left.
Its chief characteristic--which is futility, not failure--could not be achieved but by the long abuse, the rotatory reproduction, the quotidian disgrace, of the utterances of Art, especially the utterance by words.
And the only difference between the two drugs as far as detection goes is that, when viewed through an optical rotatory device called a polarimeter, dextromethorphan rotates light to the right, and levomethorphan rotates light to the left.
In a place so exclusively Mexican as Monterey, you saw not only Mexican saddles but true Vaquero riding - men always at the hand-gallop up hill and down dale, and round the sharpest corner, urging their horses with cries and gesticulations and cruel rotatory spurs, checking them dead with a touch, or wheeling them right-about-face in a square yard.