2. (noun) changing, circumstance of changing, turning.
Hohoro tonu te hurihanga i taku ingoa ki te ingoa o taku koroua, ki a Hēmi Te Koaka (HP 1991:18). / They quickly changed my name to that of my granduncle, Hēmi Te Koaka.
3. (noun) rotation (maths).
E toru ngā tikanga hei whakaatu i tētahi hurihanga – ko te pū, te ahunga, me te rahi o te hurihanga. E tutuki ai te hurihanga o tētahi mea, me ōrite te koki o te huri i ia wāhanga o taua mea i te pū huringa kotahi (TRP 2010:128). / There are three important aspects of a rotation, the centre of the rotation, the direction and the amount of rotation. A rotation is completed when all parts of an object are rotated an equal amount around a common centre of rotation (TRP 2010:128).
4. (noun) cycle, circuit.
Ko te hurihanga hauota tētahi mea nui e ora tonu ai ngā rauropi katoa o Papatūānuku (RP 2009:208). / The nitrogen cycle is an important thing for continued life of all organisms on Earth.
hurihanga takapau
1. (noun) ritual performed when warriors return from battle and require the tapu on them to be removed - included the kindling of two fires. One fire, the ahi horokaka was where the priest ate a kūmara and at the ahi ruahine a woman also ate a single kūmara. It was the woman who removed the tapu. This ceremony was accompanied by karakia. The warriors involved did not eat the kūmara.
hangarite hurihanga
1. (noun) rotational symmetry (maths).
Ko te rua te tau hangarite hurihanga o te āhua nei nā te mea i roto i te hurihanga kotahi, e rua ngā wā ka tau mārire te āhua ki runga i a ia anō (TRP 2010:107). / Two is the rotational symmetry number of this shape because in one revolution the shape lands exactly on itself twice.
