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Return :: Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis..

Revolution :: Revolution (n.) The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc..

Version :: Version (n.) A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning..

Drummond Light :: Drummond light () A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light..

Centrebit :: Centrebit (n.) An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3..

Recurrent :: Recurrent (a.) Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains..

Levorotatory :: Levorotatory (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye..

Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics..

Heliotropic :: Heliotropic (a.) Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.

Elastic :: Elastic (a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic..

Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.

Torsion :: Torsion (n.) The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction..

Wind :: Wind (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.

Acescent :: Acescent (a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

Torque :: Torque (n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis..

Circumgyration :: Circumgyration (n.) The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.

Lock :: Lock (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

Bout :: Bout (n.) As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round..

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