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Definition of Rotation

1. Noun. The act of rotating as if on an axis. "The rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"

2. Noun. (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin.

3. Noun. A single complete turn (axial or orbital). "The revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"

4. Noun. A planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.). "The manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation"

Definition of Rotation

1. n. 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.

2. a. Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.

Definition of Rotation

1. Noun. (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis. ¹

2. Noun. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis. ¹

3. Noun. A regular variation in a sequence. ¹

4. Noun. (mathematics) An isometry that fixes precisely one point. ¹

5. Noun. (baseball) The set of (soplink starting pitchers) of a team. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rotation

1. the act or an instance of rotating [n -S] : ROTATIVE [adj]

Medical Definition of Rotation

1. A movement in which the tooth turned along the long axis of the tooth. (08 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rotation

rotary subluxation of scaphoid rotary wing rotas rotascope rotascopes rotatable rotate rotateable rotated rotates

rotating rotating anode rotating anode tube rotating mechanism rotating shaft rotation (current term) rotation flap rotation period rotation therapy rotational

rotational axis rotational energy rotational latency rotational molding rotational moulding rotational nystagmus rotational period rotational transform rotationalities rotationality

Literary usage of Rotation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"The polarizing power of a sugar is expressed as specific rotation, or specific rotatory power, by which is meant the angular rotation which a calculated ..."

2. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1911)
"Relation between the Field Strength and rotation. — The angular rotation increases in general in proportion to the strength of the field, but this rule is ..."

3. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"Relation between the Field Strength and rotation. — The angular rotation increases in general in proportion to the strength of the field, but this rule is ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"By this means the crystal was rotated inside the cavity about the b crystal axis, remounted, and rotated about the <•' axis, with the rotation axis ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"The subject will immediately recognize the direction and approximately the amount of rotation when the rate is as slow as 2° per second, or even slower. ..."

6. A System of Analytic Mechanics by Benjamin Peirce (1855)
"area described by the projection of the radius vector upon the plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation. If this area is designated as the rotation-area ..."

7. Mechanics: A Textbook for Engineers by James Ellsworth Boyd (1921)
"When a homogeneous cylinder is rolling without slipping on a surface, show that the kinetic energy of rotation is one-half the kinetic energy of translation ..."

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