Rotation
Ro`ta´tion
| n. | 1. | The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution. | |||||||||
| 2. | Any return or succesion in a series.
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| a. | 1. | Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; | |||||||||
| Noun | 1. |  rotation - the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"Synonyms: rotary motion |
| 2. | rotation - (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin | |
| 3. | rotation - 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" Synonyms: gyration, revolution | |
| 4. | rotation - a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.); "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil"; "the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation" |