rotationnoun
uk/rəʊˈteɪ.ʃən/us/roʊˈteɪ.ʃən/[ U ] movement in a circle around a fixed point:
the speed of rotation
[ C ] a complete circular movement around a fixed point:
The earth completes 366 rotations about its axis in every leap year.
[ C or U ] the act by farmers of regularly changing which crops they grow in a field:
crop rotation
[ U ] the act of different people doing the same job at different times:
the rotation of key positions such as that of chairman
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revolving, rotating and spinning
- centrifugal
- centripetal
- Foucault pendulum
- go round
- gyrate
- in rotation idiom
- rev
- rotate
- round and round idiom
- rpm
- sidespin
- span
- spin
- spin (sb) around
- swing
- swing (sth/sb) around
- tailspin
- twiddle
- wheel
- wheel round
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in rotation