Rolling

Rolling

Rolling is a type of motion that combines rotation (commonly, of an axially symmetric object) and translation of that object with respect to a surface (either one or the other moves), such that, if ideal conditions exist, the two are in contact with each other without sliding.

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Famous quotes containing the word rolling:

    “On Linden, when the sun was low,
    All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
    And dark as winter was the flow
    Of Iser, rolling rapidly.”
    —Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)

    “But dread
    was in her, a bloodbeat, it was against the rolling dark
    oncoming river she raised bulwarks....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose,
    Tired of his dark dominion, swung the fiend
    Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened,”
    —George Meredith (1828–1909)