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Moving in a circle or spiral.

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Usage examples (32)
  • Quite like gyratory, territory and predatory though.
  • This impressed motion will be converted into circulatory or gyratory motion.
  • In quarrying and crushing New Jersey trap rock with gyratory crushers the following was the cost of producing 200 cu.yds. per day:
  • The double gyratory motion of the crusher, C, causes it to approach all portions of the lining, L, crushing whatever lies between.
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