Usually means: Circular or spiral motion; spinning.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word gyration:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. gyration: Merriam-Webster
  2. gyration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gyration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gyration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gyration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gyration, gyration: Wordnik
  7. gyration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gyration: Wiktionary
  9. gyration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gyration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gyration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gyration: Dictionary.com
  13. gyration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gyration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gyration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gyration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gyration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gyration: Rhymezone
  19. Gyration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gyration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gyration: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gyration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gyration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gyration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gyration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. gyration: Medical dictionary

(Note: See gyrational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gyration)

noun:  (also figuratively) The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.
noun:  (specifically, Euclidean geometry) A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of rotational symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation.
noun:  (conchology) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
noun:  (neurology) The arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex of the brain.

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