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Gyration meaning
The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation. | The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation. | A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of rotational symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation.
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His latest gyration, however, rubs up against existential values; namely, territorial integrity and national sovereignty.
Cristiano Ronaldo's bicycle kick against Juventus was no hopeful spin in the air, but an almost mechanical gyration in which his body stayed remarkably straight.
All of them can be seen to be related to a regular or uniform polyhedron by gyration, diminishment, or dissection.
Each spin exhibits a characteristic frequency of gyration (relative to the field strength) which reveals information about the analyte.
If the principal moments of the two-dimensional gyration tensor are not equal, the column will tend to buckle around the axis with the smaller principal moment.
In addition there are 5 special honeycombs which don't have pure reflectional symmetry and are constructed from reflectional forms with elongation and gyration operations.
Mathematically the radius of gyration is the root mean square distance of the object's parts from either its center of mass or a given axis, depending on the relevant application.
The gyration radius is useful in estimating the stiffness of a column.
The icosidodecahedron can therefore be called a pentagonal gyrobirotunda with the gyration between top and bottom halves.
The most common models (manufactured by Logitech and Gyration) work using 2 degrees of rotational freedom and are insensitive to spatial translation.
The radius of gyration for this case is given by : Note that although represents the contour length of the polymer, is strongly dependent of polymer stiffness and can vary over orders of magnitude.
The radius of gyration is given by the following formula: : or : Where I is the second moment of area and A is the total cross-sectional area.