Definitions for rotations

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rotations ro·ta·tion

Spelling: [roh-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /roʊˈteɪ ʃən/

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

You can make 445 anagrams from letters in rotations (ainoorstt).

Definitions for rotations

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 rotations

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

Examples for rotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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