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rotation
noun
the act of rotating as if on an axis
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ɹoʊˈteɪʃən
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noun
the act of rotating as if on an axis
“the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music”
noun
a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)
“crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil”
noun
a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
“the plane made three rotations before it crashed”
noun
(mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
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the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music
crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil
the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation
the plane made three rotations before it crashed
the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year
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