Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rotary_joint
1 sense of rotary joint
Sense 1
pivot joint, rotary joint, rotatory joint, articulatio trochoidea -- (a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation; "the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint")
=> synovial joint, articulatio synovialis, diarthrosis -- (a joint so articulated as to move freely)