What does "rotation" mean?
Rotation: Any return or succesion in a series. Moment of rotation. See Moment of inertia, under Moment. -- Rotation in office, the practice of changing public officers at frequent intervals by discharges and substitutions. -- Rotation of crops, the practices of cultivating an orderly succession of different crops on the same land.
Additional senses
- 2.Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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