rotary adj

1 relating to or characterized by rotation; "rotary dial"

2 marked by or moving in a circle [syn: circular]

1 a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary" [syn: traffic circle, circle, roundabout]

2 electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that converts alternating to direct current or vice versa [syn: synchronous converter, rotary converter]

English

Adjective

1. having rotation

   A rotary engine revolves the heads rather than having pistons go back and forth.

Noun

1. a traffic circle
2. an international club for community service

Rotary can refer to:

• Rotary engine, a type of internal combustion engine from the early 20th century
• Rotary Woofer, a type of loudspeaker capable of producing very low frequency sound
• Rotary International, a service organization
• Rotary Watches, a Swiss watchmaker
• Rotary milking shed, a type of milking shed used in the Dairy industry
• Rotary dial, a rotating telephone dial
• Rotary system, a type of pre-electronic Telephone switch for Central offices
• An abbreviation for Rotary tiller
• Rotary Wing Aircraft (Rotocraft)
• A term for a Traffic circle, a type of Roundabout or road junction at which traffic streams around a central island

O-shaped, alternate, ambagious, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backhanded, backward, beating, carrefour, circling, circuitous, circular, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, cloverleaf, crossing, crosspoint, crossroad, crosswalk, crossway, cyclic, cyclonic, descending, deviating, deviative, devious, digressive, discursive, down-trending, downward, drifting, epochal, even, every other, excursive, flowing, fluent, flying, flyover, going, grade crossing, gulfy, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, gyrostatic, helical, indirect, intercrossing, intermittent, intersection, isochronal, level crossing, meandering, measured, metronomic, mounting, oblique, orbital, oscillatory, out-of-the-way, overcrossing, overpass, passing, periodical, plunging, progressive, pulsing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rhythmic, rising, rotational, rotatory, round, roundabout, running, rushing, seasonal, serial, sideward, sinking, soaring, spiral, steady, streaming, swirly, tornadic, traffic circle, trochilic, undercrossing, undulant, undulatory, up-trending, upward, vertiginous, viaduct, vortical, wavelike, wheeling, whirlabout, whirligig, whirlwindish, whirlwindy, whirly