Thesaurus: rotation

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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. n. Any return or succesion in a series.
3. a. Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
4. n. the act of rotating as if on an axis
5. n. (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
6. n. a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
7. n. a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)
8. 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. 2. Any return or succesion in a series. 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. Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
9. Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of,or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
10. n:100 n. the act of rotating as if on an axis n. (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin n. a single complete turn (axial or orbital)