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US
/ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɹəʊtˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹəʊtˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the act of rotating as if on an axis
the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music - (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
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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 -
a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)
the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation
crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil
How To Use rotation In A Sentence
- If the plane contains the main rotation axis then it is usually called a vertical reflection plane; and if it is perpendicular to the main rotation axis it is known as a horizontal reflection plane.
- The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
- Most organic farmers try to supply their nitrogen needs with legumes in the crop rotation or with manures and composts.
- The forest services are providing for a pilot project involving 47 hectares of short-rotation willow coppice.
- The corneas were coated in 250 nm of nickel using a technique developed at Penn State called conformal-evaporated-film-by-rotation. Physicsworld.com: all content
- The cards are dealt in rotation to the right, beginning with the eldest hand.
- At this stage the rate of descent and particularly the angular rotation appeared to me to be very high and I was sure that ground impact in this configuration would have severe consequences.
- The blowup was the low point of a season in which Zambrano got banished to the bullpen after a slow start and continued to struggle when he returned to the rotation. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
- This happens around the time that Mercury arrives at that part of its orbit which places it closest to the Sun (called perihelion ), where it's orbital speed can briefly exceed its rotational speed.
- The spatial proximities between labels are determined by heteronuclear dipolar couplings, which are measured by rotational-echo double resonance (Gullion and Schaefer, 1989 ab).
