revolving

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I can think of many, mostly revolving around cases where the tag is not stored inline with the structure in question.

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Quick take

The act of something that revolves or turns.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of revolving gathered in one view.

noun

The act of something that revolves or turns.

adjective

moving around a central point.

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)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for revolving.

noun

The act of something that revolves or turns.

See also: moving, turning, rotating, wheeling

adjective

moving around a central point.

See also: moving, turning, rotating, wheeling

noun

See also: moving, turning, rotating, wheeling

adjective

(finance) 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.

See also: moving, turning, rotating, wheeling

Example sentences

I can think of many, mostly revolving around cases where the tag is not stored inline with the structure in question.

We are seeking a senior engineer to handle a variety of mission-critical tasks revolving around dev ops, build/test, and infrastructure.

Its honestly more of a flaw in the way Congress built the OPM incentive structure and the fact the director is a revolving door position that changes every 2-4 years.

And that's why they have a revolving door and churn through employees like no tomorrow.

You can reject a lot of good people and still have a revolving door of others who want to work there.

This usually involves getting tied in revolving credit, auto loans, lottery, and monthlies.

The closer you get, the easier it is, but there are forums revolving around tweaks and updates to make just about anything work.

And there's still a single point of failure revolving around Volker Barthelmann; I can't rely on vbcc continuing to exist.

That's how the revolving door contracting system works, and when you're in the competitive enterprise market you can't pass up that flow of money.

The AirBnB situation is actually grayer since zoning does make sense (who wants a revolving door of random tourists in their apartment building or even residential neighborhood?).

My life is not revolving around my work anymore.

(don't forget to divide the number of doorknobs by two to get the number of doors (ignoring revolving doors)).

Quote examples

The "revolving door" is all about the fox guarding the chicken coop.

If you would like to actually reduce the net amount of "poor people", instead of simply creating a revolving door for individuals, you give money to the middle class.

No, “the revolving door” refers to people spending time working as legislators/executive officials, and then going to work in the same industry they were regulating, and basically getting time-shifted favors/salary in return for their help while in office.

The project might have simply been the result of the "revolving door:" military people ensuring big profits for defense contractors who pay them high salaries as "advisors" later.