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rotation

/ rotation /
noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
the act of rotating as if on an axis
"the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"
Type of:
motion movement move
Kinds of:
circumvolution feather feathering gyration whirling
Derived:
revolve go around rotate circumvolve
noun Sense 2
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"
Type of:
sequence chronological sequence succession
Derived:
rotate
noun Sense 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"
Type of:
turning turn
Kinds of:
dextrorotation clockwise rotation levorotation counterclockwise rotation axial rotation
Derived:
spin spin around whirl reel gyrate
noun Sense 4
(mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
Type of:
transformation
Domain:
mathematics math maths
Semantic Complexity
73%
Sense Count
4
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
29
Times Searched
2
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motion movement move circumvolution feather feathering gyration whirling sequence chronological sequence succession turning