rotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: rotations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rotatiō. By surface analysis, rotate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 March 24, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 01 May 2013, page 114:
text: The earth's rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere.
glosses: The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
examples: text: Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.
glosses: A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
examples: text: Applying crop rotation to a field avoids depleting soil nutrients the way repeated use of a single crop might do.
text: In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire.
text: The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics.
glosses: A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.
examples: 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.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Тhe movement of investments between different sectors of an economy, or styles of investing, based on anticipated changes in the economic or market cycle.
examples: The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The set of starting pitchers of a team.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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)
examples: text: The new single enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV.
glosses: Repeated play of songs on a radio station, advertisements on a television channel, etc.
Synonyms: turning
revolution
rota
roster
duty roster
schedule
turn
turn and turn about
cycling
Hypernyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: isometry
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: transformation
Derived terms: antirotation
autorotation
axis of rotation
birotation
Borggreve rotation
circumrotation
clinorotation
contrarotation
corotation
counterrotation
crop rotation
cyclorotation
derotation
dextrorotation
double rotation
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 government
rotation period
rotationplasty
rotation-powered pulsar
rotation time
roton
sidereal rotation period
specific rotation
superrotation
superrotational
Terrell rotation
underrotation
Van Nes rotation
Wick rotation
Related terms: rotary
rotate
rotational
axis