- the act of rotating; a turning around as on an axis.
- Astronomy.
- the movement or path of the earth or a heavenly body turning on its axis.
- one complete turn of such a body.
- regularly recurring succession, as of officials.
- crop rotation.
- Mathematics.
- an operation that rotates a geometric figure about a fixed point.
- curl (def. 14).
- a game in which the balls are played in order by number.
- pitching rotation.
- the act of rotating; rotary motion
- a regular cycle of events in a set order or sequence
- a planned sequence of cropping according to which the crops grown in successive seasons on the same land are varied so as to make a balanced demand on its resources of fertility
- maths
- a circular motion of a configuration about a given point or line, without a change in shape
- a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
- another name for curl (def. 11) Abbreviation (for sense 4c): rot
- the spinning motion of a body, such as a planet, about an internal axis
- one complete turn in such motion
