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rotarily

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Etymology

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From rotary +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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rotarily (not comparable)

  1. In a rotary fashion.
    • 1928, T. Matthay, The first principles of pianoforte playing:
      Hence, if you want to act strongly with the fingers at one side of the hand, you must be careful to release the fore-arm rotarily in their direction, or even to exert it rotarily to help them.
    • 2016, Sébastien Martineau, “On rotarily transitive graphs”, in arXiv[1]:
      We call such graphs "rotarily transitive graphs", and we show that, even though there is no finite rotarily transitive graph with at least 2 vertices, there is an infinite locally finite connected rotarily transitive graph.