Rotation (disambiguation)
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Rotation is a circular motion of a body about a center.
Rotation may also refer to:
Science, mathematics and computing
[edit]- Rotation (anatomy)
- Rotation (mathematics)
- Rotation (medicine), medical student training
- Rotation (physics), ratio between a given angle and a full turn of 2π radians
- Bitwise rotation, a mathematical operator on bit patterns
- Curl (mathematics), a vector operator
- Differential rotation, objects rotating at different speeds
- Display rotation, of a computer monitor or display
- Earth's rotation
- Improper rotation or rotoreflection, a rotation and reflection in one
- Internal rotation, a term in anatomy
- Optical rotation, rotation acting on polarized light
- Rotation around a fixed axis
- Rotational spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique
- Tree rotation, a well-known method used in order to make a tree balanced.
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Music
[edit]- Rotation (Cute Is What We Aim For album), 2008
- Rotation (Joe McPhee album), 1977
- Rotation (music), the repeated airing of a limited playlist of songs on a radio station
- "Rotate" (song), a song on the album Channel 10 by Capone-N-Noreaga
- "Rotation", a song on the 1979 album Rise by Herb Alpert
- "Rotation (LOTUS-2)", a song on the 2000 album Philosopher's Propeller by Susumu Hirasawa
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Rotation (film), a 1949 East German film
- Rotation (pool), a type of pocket billiards game
Politics
[edit]- Rotation government, the practice of a government switching Prime Ministers mid-term from an individual in one political party to a different individual in another political party
Other uses
[edit]- Rotation (aviation), the act of lifting the nose off the runway during takeoff
- Rotation, in baseball pitching; see the glossary of baseball
- Crop rotation, a farming practice
- Job rotation, a business management technique
- Robson Rotation, a method of having ballot papers in elections
- Stock rotation, a retail practice