Phrase Hound found 8 phrases and 17 compound words that contain rotations. The most common are listed below. Open rotations in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 8
- counter-rotationsplural of counter-rotation: Rotation in the opposite direction.
- crop rotationsplural of crop rotation: A 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.
- double rotationsplural of double rotation: Two rotations (of an object with four or more dimensions) that happen simultaneously along two different two-dimensional planes without interfering with each other.
- improper rotationsplural of improper rotation: An isometry in Euclidean space that is a combination of a rotation about an axis and a reflection in a plane perpendicular to that axis.
- optical rotationsplural of optical rotation: The rotation of the plane of polarization of plane polarized light as it passes through a chiral medium
- specific rotationsplural of 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
- Wick rotationsplural of Wick rotation: A 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 …
- Faraday rotationsplural of Faraday rotation: An 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 …
Compound words 17
- autorotationsplural of autorotation: The rotation of the blades of a helicopter driven solely by the action of ascending air
- circumrotationsplural of circumrotation: rotation or revolution around an axis
- counterrotationsplural of counterrotation: Rotation in the opposite direction.
- cyclorotationsplural of cyclorotation: Torsional movement of the eye (rotational movement that does not shift the centre of the pupil).
- egorotationsplural of egorotation: rotation of a body-part (typically a fly's eye) around an axis of the body
- endorotationsplural of endorotation: The rotation of a limb toward the midline of the body
- exorotationsplural of exorotation: The rotation of a limb away from the midline of the body
- gyrorotationsplural of gyrorotation: A rotation in gyrovector space.
- isorotationsplural of isorotation: Equal rotation, especially of parts of a rotating magnetic field
- malrotationsplural of malrotation: An anomaly of rotation; aberrant movement of parts in a rotating fashion.