Usually means: Circular or spiral motion; whirl.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. gyre: Merriam-Webster
  2. gyre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gyre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gyre: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gyre: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gyre, gyre: Wordnik
  7. gyre: Wiktionary
  8. gyre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gyre: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gyre: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. gyre: Dictionary.com
  12. gyre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Gyre (disambiguation), Gyre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Gyre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gyre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gyre: Rhymezone
  17. Gyre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gyre: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gyre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. gyre: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gyre: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gyre: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  2. gyre: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gyre: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gyral as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gyre)

noun:  (chiefly literary, poetic)
noun:  A swirling vortex.
noun:  A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
noun:  (anatomy, zootomy, archaic) Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”)
noun:  (oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
verb:  (intransitive) To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.

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