ROTATION
\ɹə͡ʊtˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɹəʊtˈeɪʃən], \ɹ_əʊ_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ROTATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
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the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Any return or succesion in a series.
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Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Any return or succesion in a series.
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Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
By Noah Webster.
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Motion of a rigid body in which either one point is fixed, or all the points on a straight line are fixed. It is also the motion of a particle about a fixed point. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of turning round on an axis, like a wheel; regular succession; as, rotation in office; recurrence.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Change by alternation, as of crops.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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