Derotation vs. Rotation

Derotationnoun

A rotation in the opposite direction.

Derotationnoun

(surgery) The correction of a rotational deformity.

Rotationnoun

The act of turning around a centre or an axis.

Rotationnoun

A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.

Rotationnoun

A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even-out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.

Rotationnoun

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

Rotationnoun

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

Rotationnoun

(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)

Rotationnoun

Repeated play on a radio station, etc.

Rotationnoun

The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.

Rotationnoun

Any return or succesion in a series.

Rotationadjective

Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.

Rotationnoun

the act of rotating as if on an axis;

Rotationnoun

(mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin

Rotationnoun

a single complete turn (axial or orbital);

Rotationnoun

a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.);

Rotation

A rotation is a circular movement of an object around a center (or point) of rotation. The geometric plane along which the rotation occurs is called the rotation plane, and the imaginary line extending from the center and perpendicular to the rotation plane is called the rotation axis ( AK-seez).