English-German translations for rotation

• Rotation die
  Die Lösung ist nicht die Rotation, sondern eine Gewichtung. The solution is not rotation but weighting.
  Wir sollten außerdem das Prinzip der gleichberechtigten Rotation aufgeben. We should also drop the principle of equal rotation.
  Bestimmte Mitgliedstaaten können auch die externe Rotation beibehalten wie bisher. Some of them can retain the external rotation that they had before.
• Umdrehung die
• Drehung die

Definition of rotation

• The act of turning around a centre or an axis
• A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis
• A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even-out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster
• An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point
• The set of starting pitchers of a team
• Repeated play on a radio station, etc

Synonyms

• turning
• revolution
• rota
• roster
• roster
• schedule
• turn
• turn and turn about
• cycling

Examples

• The earths rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere.
• Earths moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.
• Applying crop rotation to a field avoids depleting soil nutrients the way repeated use of a single crop might do.
• In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire.
• The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics.
• The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation.
• The new single enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV.

Related words

• rotational
• irrotational
• mutarotation
• corotational
• autorotation
• contrarotation
• rotation axis of the Earth
• rotation period
• rotation curve