rotation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
ball-games
baseball
business
engineering
finance
games
geometry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rotātiō. By surface analysis, rotate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: rotations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.
gloss: A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Тhe movement of investments between different sectors of an economy, or styles of investing, based on anticipated changes in the economic or market cycle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation.
gloss: The set of starting pitchers of a team.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Repeated play of songs on a radio station, advertisements on a television channel, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The new single enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV.
Synonyms: turning
revolution
rota
roster
duty roster
schedule
turn
turn and turn about
cycling
Related words: rotary
rotate
rotational
axis
Derived words: 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
lunar rotation
magnetorotation
malrotation
microrotation
misrotation
mutarotation
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
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