rotator
Americannoun
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rotators,
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rotatores
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a person or thing that rotates.
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Anatomy. a muscle serving to rotate a part of the body.
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Nautical. a bladed device streamed to rotate in the water to actuate a patent log.
noun
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a person, device, or part that rotates or causes rotation
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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
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The same technology could also have potential uses in post-traumatic OA, intervertebral disc degeneration, rotator cuff degeneration, and the localized delivery of other hydrophobic drug candidates.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Phillips only made seven appearances last season, starting on the injured list with a strained rotator cuff before undergoing Tommy John surgery in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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
After high school, I signed a minor-league contract but tore my rotator cuff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 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
Do not forget, you captains of men, when you grease and trim your pumps and compressors and rotators, that the human machine needs some tending also.
From Danger! and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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