Phrase Hound found 32 phrases and 39 compound words that contain rotation. The most common are listed below. Open rotation in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 32
- axis of rotationThe axis about which any body rotates.
- crop rotationA farming practice in which the same land is used to grow different crops in successive seasons or years (when once the land would have been left fallow); used to prevent erosion and increase fertility.
- rotation governmentA form of government, typically in a parliamentary system with a coalition of parties, where the position of prime minister or head of government is alternated between the leaders of the constituent parties for agreed-upon terms, in …
- synchronous rotationThe situation in which an astronomical body takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its partner.
- axes of rotationplural of axis of rotation: The axis about which any body rotates.
- rotation curvefor a galaxy, a plot of the orbital velocity of objects with respect to the center of the galaxy, as a function of the distance between the two
- Faraday rotationAn interaction between a polarized electromagnetic pulse, such as a beam of light, and a magnetic field, in which the plane of polarization is rotated in proportion to the intensity of the component of the magnetic field in the direction …
- double rotationTwo rotations (of an object with four or more dimensions) that happen simultaneously along two different two-dimensional planes without interfering with each other.
- optical rotationThe rotation of the plane of polarization of plane polarized light as it passes through a chiral medium
- Euler's rotation theoremA theorem which states that, in 3-dimensional space, any displacement of a rigid body such that some point on it remains fixed is equivalent to a single rotation about some axis that runs through said point.
- counter-rotationAlternative form of counterrotation: Rotation in the opposite direction.
- job rotationA form of employment in which an employer spends a period of time in one department or working on one task and is then moved on to another.
- Norfolk rotationSynonym of Norfolk crop rotation: A system of crop rotation in the order of potatoes, oats, peas, and finally rye.
- rotation periodrotational period
- specific rotation[α]_D, the angle of rotation of the plane of polarization of a ray of monochromatic light that passes through 10cm of the substance in solution at a concentration of 1 gram per millilitre
- rotation curvesplural of rotation curve: for a galaxy, a plot of the orbital velocity of objects with respect to the center of the galaxy, as a function of the distance between the two
- improper rotationAn isometry in Euclidean space that is a combination of a rotation about an axis and a reflection in a plane perpendicular to that axis.
- Norfolk crop rotationA system of crop rotation in the order of potatoes, oats, peas, and finally rye.
- Wick rotationA method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that substitutes an imaginary-number variable for a real-number variable.
- Terrell rotationThe visual distortion (resembling a rotation) that a passing object travelling at a significant fraction of the speed of light exhibits.
- Van Nes rotationRotationplasty.
- rotation-powered pulsarA type of neutron star powered by its loss of rotational energy in its magnetic field.
- rotation-powered pulsarsplural of rotation-powered pulsar: A type of neutron star powered by its loss of rotational energy in its magnetic field.
- Borggreve rotationrotationplasty
- race rotationThe rotary, rather than propulsive, motion produced by a propeller.
Compound words 39
- rotamerany of a set of conformers that arise from restricted rotation around a single bond
- rotonThe quantum of rotation in a superfluid
- autorotationThe rotation of the blades of a helicopter driven solely by the action of ascending air
- cyclorotationTorsional movement of the eye (rotational movement that does not shift the centre of the pupil).
- rotationplastyA type of autograft in which a portion of an arm or leg is removed, while the remaining limb below the excised portion is rotated and reattached.
- rotaprintA duplicating machine.
- antirotationThat prevents rotation
- contrarotationRotation in a contrary direction.
- counterrotationRotation in the opposite direction.
- derotationA rotation in the opposite direction.