资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rotative \Ro"ta*tive\, a. [Cf. F. rotatif.]
   turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.

         This high rotative velocity of the sun must cause an
         equatorial rise of the solar atmosphere. --Siemens.

   {Rotative engine}, a steam engine in which the reciprocating
      motion of the piston is transformed into a continuous
      rotary motion, as by means of a connecting rod, a working
      beam and crank, or an oscillating cylinder.