rotation
- the act of rotating; a turning around as on an axis.
- Astronomy.
- the movement or path of the earth or a heavenly body turning on its axis.
- one complete turn of such a body.
- regularly recurring succession, as of officials.
- Agriculture. crop rotation.
- Mathematics.
- an operation that rotates a geometric figure about a fixed point.
- curl(def 14).
- Pool. a game in which the balls are played in order by number.
- Baseball. pitching rotation.
Origin of rotation
Related Words for rotation
orbit, cycle, gyration, circle, revolution, circumvolution, torque, vortex, turn, eddy, succession, spin, turningExamples from the Web for rotation
Contemporary Examples of rotation
Following one week of “R&R,” the team will spend one more six-week rotation in the ETU before entering a three-week isolation.
"Palmer always keeps his word," beamed Weaver, putting the right hander back in the rotation.
Others who will join the rotation include Alan Alda, Candice Bergen, Stacy Keach, and Carol Burnett.
Fall Broadway Preview: 'This Is Our Youth,' Bradley Cooper as ‘The Elephant Man,' and MoreJanice Kaplan
September 11, 2014
Of course, that relates to the other rotation of the spin herethat she was difficult and demanding.
The Hypocrisy Behind The New York Times’s Abrupt Decapitation of Jill AbramsonRobert Shrum
May 18, 2014
Ten stand, eight sleep, then eight different men sleep, all in a rotation.
Al Jazeera Journo Abdullah El-Shamy Goes On Hunger Strike In Egyptian JailJonathan Krohn
March 29, 2014
Historical Examples of rotation
I must wait the rotation of the list, and there are twenty names before mine.
The Letters of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
If the direction of the boat is to be reversed, the rotation of the paddle-wheels is reversed.
Boys' Book of Model BoatsRaymond Francis Yates
The periods of rotation of the ball and of the ring were also fixed.
Sir William Herschel: His Life and WorksEdward Singleton Holden
Stop the rotation, and the atom would be annihilated for the same reason.
The Machinery of the UniverseAmos Emerson Dolbear
This rotation in the ether is produced by what is going on in the wire.
The Machinery of the UniverseAmos Emerson Dolbear
rotation
- the act of rotating; rotary motion
- a regular cycle of events in a set order or sequence
- a planned sequence of cropping according to which the crops grown in successive seasons on the same land are varied so as to make a balanced demand on its resources of fertility
- maths
- a circular motion of a configuration about a given point or line, without a change in shape
- a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
- another name for curl (def. 11) Abbreviation (for sense 4c): rot
- the spinning motion of a body, such as a planet, about an internal axisCompare revolution (def. 5a)
- one complete turn in such motion
Word Origin and History for rotation
1550s, from Latin rotationem (nominative rotatio) "a turning about in a circle," noun of action from past participle stem of rotare "turn round, revolve, whirl about, roll," from PIE *roto- (see rotary).
rotation
(rō-tā′shən)- The act or process of turning around a center or an axis.
- Regular and uniform variation in a sequence or series, as in the recurrence of symptoms of a disease.
rotation
- The motion of an object around an internal axis.
- A single complete cycle of such motion. See Note at revolution.
- A transformation of a coordinate system in which the new axes have a specified angular displacement from their original position while the origin remains fixed.