revolving

English

Adjective

revolving (not comparable)

1. moving around a central point.
2. (finance) Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.

Derived terms

• revolving chair
• revolving credit
• revolving door
• revolving loan

Translations

moving around a central point or axis

Bulgarian: въртящ се (vǎrtjašt se) Maori: hurihuri, takahurihuri Spanish: giratorio

finance

Spanish: rotativo (es), rotatorio (es), renovable

Verb

revolving

1. present participle and gerund of revolve

Noun

revolving (plural revolvings)

1. The act of something that revolves or turns.
   • 1867, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Sexology as the Philosophy of Life, page 245:

     The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.

2. The process where you either take an non-closing linear shape or a 2D shape, take a 3D axis as the pivot, and basically revolve the linear shape around the axis to get a 3D object. (e.g. taking a 2D triangle and turning it into a cone, taking a circle and turning it into a sphere, taking a long U-shape and turning it into a test tube object)