CIRCUMNUTATIONS Synonyms

• a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

• the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

• a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

• the act of rotating as if on an axis

• (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin

• a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

• a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)

• creating thread

• the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course

• act of changing in practice or custom

• a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe

• a movement in a new direction

• the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe

• the activity of shaping something on a lathe

• the act of rotating in a circle or spiral

• the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another

• a particular environment or walk of life

• an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:

• the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom

• the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball

• move in an orbit

• To turn on an exact spot.

• To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.

• A motion by which something pivots.

• The pivot-work in a machine.

• the shape of something rotating rapidly

• turn in a twisting or spinning motion

• flow in a circular current, of liquids

• a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

• the act of rotating rapidly

• turn in a twisting or spinning motion

• cause to spin