rotator
Americannoun
-
rotators,
plural
-
rotatores
plural
-
a person or thing that rotates.
-
Anatomy. a muscle serving to rotate a part of the body.
-
Nautical. a bladed device streamed to rotate in the water to actuate a patent log.
noun
-
a person, device, or part that rotates or causes rotation
-
anatomy any of various muscles that revolve a part on its axis
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rotator
1670–80; < Latin rotātor, equivalent to rotā ( re ) ( see rotate 1) + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
He was also suffering, he said, from herniated discs and torn rotator cuffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Researchers are now trying to understand how this galaxy became what scientists call a "slow rotator" so quickly.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
Less than 18 months after he was drafted, Lesch, wracked by a rotator cuff injury, was released, his major league dream over before he was old enough to legally buy a beer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
If Lesch had come along 10 years later, when rotator cuff surgeries were common, he might have returned to the mound.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Marge’s arthritis makes scrubbing a torture; another woman has to see a physical therapist for her rotator cuff.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
"The pentiptycene rotators utilized in this work have several pocket sites," commented Jin.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2023
NSF expects the pilot to affect 50 to 60 rotators over the next year.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 8, 2016
These rapid rotators spin so fast that their shapes are “flattened” into what we call oblate spheroids.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The proximal fragment is kept tilted forward, rotated laterally, and abducted by the ilio-psoas muscle and the lateral rotators inserted in the region of the great trochanter.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
The muscles most frequently at fault are the sterno-mastoid and trapezius of one side, and the posterior rotators of the opposite side.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
