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.

(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.

(geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.

(baseball) The set of starting pitchers of a team.

(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)

Repeated play of songs on a radio station, advertisements on a television channel, etc.