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rotation

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/ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/ English

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noun

  1. The act of turning around a centre or an axis.“The earth's rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere.”
  2. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.“Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.”
  3. A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even-out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.“In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire.”
  4. An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.“The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation.”

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