Definition of "roving" []

• Wandering freely. (adjective)
• Present participle of rove. (verb)
• A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn. (noun)

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• "After one more postdoctoral year which I spent in "roving" mode, spending time at Oxford, Harvard and Illinois, in the autumn of 1967 I took up a lectureship at the University of Sussex, where I was to spend the next fifteen years of my career."
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• "The unteased roving is on the left, the teased is on the right."