rotation

Rotation stands for:

• In multivariate statistics certain procedures for rotating coordinate systems, see Rotation procedure (statistics)
• Rotation (medicine) , rotational movement of a part of the body
• Crop rotation , the alternation of different crops in a field
• Change of office within a body, see rotation principle
• Rotation (billiards) , a variant of pool billiards
• Rotation (broadcast) , the number of times a song has been played on radio and television
• Rotation (film) , German feature film from 1949
• in GDR sport the company sport associations of the printing industry and the publishing industry, see sports association

Mathematics, physics:

• Rotation in geometry
• in graph theory an application to the binary tree
• Rotation of a vector field in mathematics
• in mathematics and physics a certain transformation of the coordinate system, see coordinate transformation #rotation (rotation)
• Rotation (physics) , the movement of a point around an axis

Technology:

• Cyclic shifting without a carry bit, a bit-wise operator in computer science
• prescribed direction of rotation on vehicle tires , see car tire # direction of rotation , inside and outside
• in aviation the moment of lifting, see rotation point
• Optical rotation in chemistry and physics, see optical activity
• a manufacturing process in the plastics industry, see rotational molding
• a manufacturing process in the printing industry, see rotary printing

See also:

Wiktionary: Rotation  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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