rotator
noun
a person or thing that rotates.
rotators
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pluralof rotator.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"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
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
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
