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

Watt had perfected, with the aid of Murdoch, both the pumping-engine and the rotative steam-engine for application to mills.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.

One form of apparatus for the propagation of rotative oscillations is shown to the left of Fig.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

Come, rest your Head if Earth rotative seems And close your Lids from these o'er wakeful Gleams - Although your Palate cringe you shall not shrink Within the Kitchen of the House of Dreams.

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace