rotation
The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
Other meanings
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.”
Synonyms
- turning
- schedule
- turn
- turn and turn about
- cycling
- rotary motion
Related words
- mutarotation
- clinorotation
- crop rotation
- improper rotation
- axis of rotation
- Borggreve rotation
- Euler's rotation theorem
- Faraday rotation
- job rotation
- Norfolk crop rotation
- Norfolk rotation
- optical rotation
Word history
From Latin "rotātiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “rotation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.