spinning

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪnɪŋ/

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spinning (not comparable)

1. Rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling.
   • 2013 March 1, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, page 114:

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

spinning (countable and uncountable, plural spinnings)

1. The motion of something that spins.
   • 2005, Geoffrey Hemphill, Nico and the Unseen - A Voyage Into the Fourth Dimension (page 258)

     these uncontrollable spinnings of the head

2. The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.
3. Indoor cycling.

spinning

1. present participle of spin

• pinnings

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spinning m (uncountable)

1. spinning (indoor cycling)