Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

revolving

/ɹivˈɑlvɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables: re-volv-ing
IPA: /ɹivˈɑlvɪŋ/

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

moving around a central point.

adj

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.

verb

present participle and gerund of revolve

noun

The act of something that revolves or turns.

noun

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)

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

revolvings (plural)

Derived Forms

nonrevolving revolvingly unrevolving

Phrases

revolving chair revolving credit revolving door revolving loan revolving nutation

Rhymes With

involving solving evolving resolving absolving

Questions

How do you pronounce revolving?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹivˈɑlvɪŋ/.
What does revolving mean?: moving around a central point.

How to pronounce revolving

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