rotative

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They also create rotative engine discs by carving out large pieces of titanium and other metals.

From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2020

In fifth place, with 10% of the votes, was the Crossness Engine House, and the James Watt rotative beam engine.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2014

The favorable economical effect of high rotative speed, per se, was very apparent.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various

Rotatory engines have not hitherto been very successful, so that only the single acting or pumping engine, and the double acting or rotative engine can be said to be in actual use.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.

The sun-and-planet arrangement, with gears of equal size, was adopted by Watt for nearly all the rotative engines that he built during the term of the "crank patents."

From Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt by Ferguson, Eugene S.