19 August 2016
gyre
[jahyuh r]
noun
1. a ring or circle.
2. a circular course or motion.
3. Oceanography. a ringlike system of ocean currents rotating clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Origin of gyre
Latin Greek
1560-1570; < Latin gȳrus < Greek gŷros ring, circle
Related forms
subgyre, noun
supergyre, noun
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Examples from the Web for gyre
Contemporary Examples
Yet with the tsunami debris joining the gyre, the problem is compounding more quickly than anyone can measure.
Japanese Debris Plume From Tsunami Migrating Across Pacific Ocean
Daniel Stone
March 8, 2012
Historical Examples
Dorsally, the fissure bifurcates, embracing the gyre indented by the caudal limb of the paracentral.
Christian Science
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
gyre (derived from Gayour or Giaour, a dog), “to scratch like a dog.”
Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home
Belle Moses
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Today’s quote
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
– Blaise Pascal
On this day
19 August 14AD – death of Augustus Caesar, founder of the Roman Empire and first Roman Emperor. Born 23 September 63BC.
19 August 1662 – death of Blaise Pascal, controversial French mathematician, physicist, inventor and writer. Formulated ‘Pascal’s Triangle’, a tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, challenged Aristotle’s followers who claimed that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’. The computer programming language, ‘Pascal’, is named in his honour.
19 August 1900 – start of the first Olympic cricket match, played in Paris. It is the only Olympics in which cricket was played.
19 August 1919 – Afghanistan Independence Day, in which Afghanistan declared its independence from Britain.
19 August – World Humanitarian Day – a day to recognise those who face danger and adversity in order to help others. 19 August was chosen because it is the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, which killed Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative for Secretary-General to Iraq and 21 of his colleagues. The day seeks to draw attention to humanitarian needs worldwide and the importance of international cooperation in meeting these needs.