# rotation
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotatiō. By surface analysis, rotate +‎ -ion.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

rotation (countable and uncountable, plural rotations)
* (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
** 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
    The earth's rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere.
* A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
    Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.
* A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.
    Applying crop rotation to a field avoids depleting soil nutrients the way repeated use of a single crop might do.
    In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire.
    The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics.
* (finance), the movement of investments between different sectors of an economy, or styles of investing, based on anticipated changes in the economic or market cycle.
    Sector rotation attempts to capitalize on the tendency of certain sectors to outperform others during specific economic phases, while style rotation involves shifting investments between different investment styles, such as moving from growth stocks to value stocks.
* (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.
    The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation.
* (baseball) The set of starting pitchers of a team.
* (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll. (see also: V2)
* Repeated play of songs on a radio station, advertisements on a television channel, etc.
    The new single enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV.

#### Synonyms

* turning
* revolution
* rota, roster, duty roster, schedule, turn, turn and turn about, cycling

#### Hypernyms

* (mathematics): isometry, transformation

#### Derived terms

* antirotation
* autorotation
* axis of rotation
* birotation
* Borggreve rotation
* circumrotation
* clinorotation
* contrarotation
* corotation
* counterrotation
* crop rotation
* cyclorotation
* derotation
* dextrorotation
* egorotation
* electrorotation
* endorotation
* Euler's rotation theorem
* exorotation
* Faraday rotation
* gyrorotation
* improper rotation
* isorotation
* job rotation
* levorotation
* magnetorotation
* malrotation
* microrotation
* misrotation
* nonrotation
* Norfolk crop rotation
* Norfolk rotation
* optical rotation
* overrotation
* prerotation
* pseudorotation
* race rotation
* rotamer
* rotation curve
* rotation period
* rotationplasty
* rotation time
* roton
* sidereal rotation period
* specific rotation
* superrotation
* superrotational
* Terrell rotation
* underrotation
* Van Nes rotation
* Wick rotation

#### Related terms

* rotary
* rotate
* rotational

#### Translations

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### See also

* axis

### Further reading

* Rotation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotātiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

rotation f (plural rotations)
* rotation

#### Derived terms

* axe de rotation

#### Related terms

* rouer, rôder

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: rotație
* → Turkish: rotasyon

### Further reading

* “rotation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotatio.

### Noun

rotation c
* act of turning a physical object or a coordinate system around a center or an axis