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rotating, ppl. a.|rəʊˈteɪtɪŋ|
[f. rotate v.]
1. a. Turning round on a centre or axis.
1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Resources, Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power with its rotating constellations. 1863Tyndall Heat i. 10 The edge of a swiftly rotating wheel. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. iv. (ed. 2) 82 If the veering of the former, and the marked fall of the latter prove the gale to be rotating, or cyclonic.
b. Causing rotation; rotatory.
1883J. Millington Are we to read backwards? 67 The rotating muscles have a much more numerous amount of contractions to effect.
2. Acting in rotation; rotative.
1884Athenæum 19 Jan. 82/3 Four rotating regents conducted the classes of philosophy or arts. 1975Saturday Night (Toronto) July–Aug. 18/2 It has been the unions in the public service, not surprisingly, who have perfected the kind of random sniper-fire known as ‘selective’ strikes or ‘rotating’ strikes or ‘twenty-four-hour’ strikes. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 21 Aug. 15/1 Asolo now offers nine plays in rotating repertory from mid-February to Labor Day. |