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See also: Rotation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin rotatiō. By surface analysis, rotate + -ion.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]rotation (countable and uncountable, plural rotations)
- (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
- 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:
- An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
- The earth's rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere.
- A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
- Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.
- A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.
- Applying crop rotation to a field avoids depleting soil nutrients the way repeated use of a single crop might do.
- In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire.
- The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics.
- (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.
- The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation.
- (baseball) The set of starting pitchers of a team.
- (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll. (see also: V2)
- Repeated play on a radio station, etc.
- The new single enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV.
Synonyms
[edit]- turning
- revolution
- rota, roster, duty roster, schedule, turn, turn and turn about, cycling
Hypernyms
[edit]- (mathematics): isometry, transformation
Derived terms
[edit]- axis of rotation
- Borggreve rotation
- clinorotation
- crop rotation
- Euler's rotation theorem
- Faraday rotation
- improper rotation
- job rotation
- Norfolk crop rotation
- Norfolk rotation
- optical rotation
- race rotation
- rotation curve
- rotation period
- rotation time
- sidereal rotation period
- specific rotation
- Van Nes rotation
- Wick rotation
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of turning around a centre
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single cycle of turning
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regular variation in a sequence
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isometry
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin rotātiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rotation f (plural rotations)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rotation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rotation c
- act of turning a physical object or a coordinate system around a center or an axis
Declension
[edit]Declension of rotation | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | rotation | rotationen | rotationer | rotationerna |
Genitive | rotations | rotationens | rotationers | rotationernas |
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