Rotation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rotation \Ro*ta"tion\, n. [L. rotatio: cf. F. rotation.]
     1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its
        axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a
        revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the
        daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its
        annual motion round the sun is a revolution.


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     2. Any return or succesion in a series.
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     {Moment of rotation}. See {Moment of inertia}, under
        {Moment}.
  
     {Rotation in office}, the practice of changing public
        officers at frequent intervals by discharges and
        substitutions.
  
     {Rotation of crops}, the practices of cultivating an orderly
        succession of different crops on the same land.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rotation \Ro*ta"tion\, a.
     Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of,
     or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rotation
       n 1: the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the
            dancer kept time with the music" [syn: {rotary motion}]
       2: (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes
          are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
       3: a single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made
          three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the
          earth about the sun takes one year" [syn: {revolution}, {gyration}]
       4: a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.);
          "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of
          the soil"; "the manager had only four starting pitchers in
          his rotation"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "rotation":
     Indian file, array, arsis, articulation, bank, beat,
     booster rocket, bout, buzz, catapult, catena, catenation, chain,
     chain reaction, chaining, circle, circuit, circulation,
     circumvolution, coming after, concatenation, connection,
     consecution, consecutiveness, continuation, continuity, continuum,
     course, cycle, descent, diastole, downbeat, drone, endless belt,
     endless round, extension, file, filiation, following, gamut,
     gradation, ground loop, gyration, gyre, hopoff, hum, line, lineage,
     logical sequence, monotone, nexus, order, order of succession,
     pendulum, periodicity, plenum, posteriority, postposition,
     powder train, procession, progression, prolongation, pulse, queue,
     range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, revolution, round, routine,
     row, run, scale, sequence, series, single file, spectrum, spell,
     string, subjunction, succession, successiveness, suffixation,
     swath, systole, takeoff, thesis, thread, tier, train, turn, upbeat,
     wheel, whirl, windrow