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
Modern airplane engines are designed to operate continuously at a fairly uniform high rotative speed and at full load over long periods of time.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Let a cylindrical vessel, of any considerable magnitude, be partially filled with water, and let the rotative motion be communicated to the fluid, by passing a rod repeatedly through its mass, in a circular course.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
In other words, a fly wheel is not a source of power, and in many cases it is only a means by which we accomplish rotative speed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 by Various
