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rotation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rotationem, accusative of rotatio.Morphologically rotate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?o??te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
rotation (countable and uncountable, plural rotations)
- (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
- The earth's rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere.
- 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.
- In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire.
- The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics.
- (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.
- The function mapping (x,y) to (?y,x) is a rotation.
- (baseball) The set of starting pitchers of a team.
- (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll. (see also: V2)
- Repeated play on a radio station, etc.
- The new single enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV.
Synonyms
- turning
- revolution
- rota, roster, duty roster, schedule, turn, turn and turn about, cycling
Hypernyms
- (mathematics): isometry, transformation
Derived terms
- crop rotation
- improper rotation
Related terms
- rotary
- rotate
- rotational
Translations
See also
- axis
Further reading
- Rotation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rotationem, accusative of rotatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.ta.sj??/
Noun
rotation f (plural rotations)
- rotation
Derived terms
- axe de rotation
Related terms
- rouer, rôder
Further reading
- “rotation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rotatio.
Noun
rotation c
- act of turning a physical object or a coordinate system around a center or an axis
Declension
rotation From the web:
- what rotational symmetry
- what rotation does the earth spin
- what rotation means
- what rotation about the origin is equivalent to r?200°
- what rotation is warframe on
- what rotation is (-x y)
- what rotation is shown below
- what rotation for ceiling fan in winter
geostrophic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???- (ge?-, “earth-”) + ?????? (stroph?, “a turn, bend, twist”) + -ic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?????st???f?k/
Adjective
geostrophic (comparative more geostrophic, superlative most geostrophic)
- (meteorology) Relating to the balance, in the atmosphere, between the horizontal Coriolis forces and the horizontal pressure forces.
- (meteorology) Relating to or arising from the deflective force exerted on the atmosphere due to the rotation of the earth.
Coordinate terms
- cyclostrophic
See also
- ageostrophic
- geostrophic wind
- geostrophic wind level
geostrophic From the web:
- what geostrophic wind is
- what geostrophic balance
- what is geostrophic flow
- what is geostrophic wind scale
- what is geostrophic force
- what causes geostrophic winds
- what does geostrophic mean
- what does geostrophic wind mean
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