meaning of rotation

1. 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.
2.
Any return or succesion in a series.
3.
Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
4.
the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the ">music"


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