Usually means: Turning around a central point.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. rotation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rotation, rotation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rotation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rotation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rotation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rotation, rotation: Wordnik
  7. rotation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rotation: Wiktionary
  9. rotation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rotation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rotation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rotation: Dictionary.com
  13. rotation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rotation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rotation (Cute Is What We Aim For album), Rotation (Joe McPhee album), Rotation (aeronautics), Rotation (aviation), Rotation (disambiguation), Rotation (film), Rotation (geometry), Rotation (mathematics), Rotation (music), Rotation (pool), Rotation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rotation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rotation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rotation: Rhymezone
  19. rotation, rotation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rotation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rotation: Free Dictionary
  22. rotation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rotation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  5. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  6. rotation: Legal dictionary
  7. Rotation: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rotation: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. rotation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Rotation: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  7. rotation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rotation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Rotation: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Rotation: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. rotation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rotation: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rotation: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Rotation: Sports Definitions

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  4. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  5. ROTATION: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  6. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  7. JPL Terms (No longer online)
  8. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  9. rotation: Chapters in the Sky
  10. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
noun:  A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
noun:  A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.
noun:  (finance), the movement of investments between different sectors of an economy, or styles of investing, based on anticipated changes in the economic or market cycle.
noun:  (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.
noun:  (baseball) The set of starting pitchers of a team.
noun:  (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll. (see also: V2)
noun:  Repeated play on a radio station, etc.

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