gyre
/dʒaɪr/
noun
- A circular or spiral motion or form, especially a large system of rotating ocean currents.
- Satellite images show the massive gyre spinning slowly in the Atlantic.
- The North Pacific gyre is famous for collecting plastic debris.
- Sailors have long known to avoid the center of a powerful gyre.
- A ring or circle; something that whirls or revolves.
- A gyre of dust rose from the dry field as the wind picked up.
- The hawk traced a gyre high above the meadow.
- The dancers formed a gyre on the floor, spinning in unison.