Definitions for rotation

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rotation ro·ta·tion

Spelling: [roh-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /roʊˈteɪ ʃən/

Rotation is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in rotation (ainoortt).

Definitions for rotation

noun

1. the act of rotating; a turning around as on an axis.
2. Astronomy. the movement or path of the earth or a heavenly body turning on its axis. one complete turn of such a body.
3. regularly recurring succession, as of officials.
4. Agriculture. crop rotation.
5. Mathematics. an operation that rotates a geometric figure about a fixed point. curl (def 14).
6. Pool. a game in which the balls are played in order by number.
7. Baseball. pitching rotation.

Origin of rotation

1545-55; Latin rotātiōn- (stem of rotātiō) a rotation, rolling, equivalent to rotāt(us) (see rotate¹) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for rotation

If the direction of the boat is to be reversed, the rotation of the paddle-wheels is reversed.

I must wait the rotation of the list, and there are twenty names before mine.

The periods of rotation of the ball and of the ring were also fixed.

Stop the rotation, and the atom would be annihilated for the same reason.

Following one week of “R&R,” the team will spend one more six-week rotation in the ETU before entering a three-week isolation.

Others who will join the rotation include Alan Alda, Candice Bergen, Stacy Keach, and Carol Burnett.

"Palmer always keeps his word," beamed Weaver, putting the right hander back in the rotation.

Are there any phenomena which imply that rotation is going on in an electric conductor?

Ten stand, eight sleep, then eight different men sleep, all in a rotation.

Of course, that relates to the other rotation of the spin herethat she was difficult and demanding.