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up and down collapse: moving backward and forward along a given course; "he walked up and down the locker room"; "all up and down the Eastern seaboard"; alternately upward and downward; "he eyed him up and down"

downbeat collapse: the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward)

whirling collapse: moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting motion; "a tornado's whirling winds"; "swirling currents"

whir collapse: sound of something in rapid motion; "whir of a bird's wings"; "the whir of the propellers"

catapult collapse: medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles; a device that launches aircraft from a warship; shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult; "the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort"

diastole collapse: the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood

procession collapse: the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation; "processions were forbidden"

systole collapse: the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery

posteriority collapse: following in time; the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end

prolongation collapse: the act of prolonging something; "there was an indefinite prolongation of the peace talks"

swath collapse: a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing); the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine

pendulum collapse: an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity

gamut collapse: a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions"; the entire scale of musical notes

continuum collapse: a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct of distinguishable from adjacent parts

tier collapse: one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake"; something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers"; a worker who ties something; any one of two or more competitors who tie one another

rotation collapse: the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"; a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.); "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil"; "the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation"; a single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"; (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin

gradation collapse: the act of arranging in grades; relative position in a graded series; "always a step behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with the fashions"

queue collapse: a braid of hair at the back of the head; (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted; a line of people or vehicles waiting for something

recurrence collapse: happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring"

alternation collapse: successive change from one thing or state to another and back again; being regularly exchangeable

revolve collapse: turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"

chain reaction collapse: a series of chemical reactions in which the product of one is a reactant in the next; a self-sustaining nuclear reaction; a series of nuclear fissions in which neutrons released by splitting one atom leads to the splitting of others

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