Rotor (disambiguation)
Rotor designates:
- a rotating air cylinder on the leeward side of a mountain ridge, see Leewelle
- RotoR , a music group from Berlin
- Rotor Volgograd , former Russian football club
- rotor (Kunstverein) , an association for contemporary art in Graz
- ROTOR , a 1987 American action film
- Rotation of a vector field in mathematics
Technology:
- Rotor , the rotating part of a machine
- Darrieus rotor , a wind turbine for wind turbines with a vertical axis of rotation
- Savonius rotor , also a wind turbine with a vertical axis of rotation
- Main rotor of a helicopter
- Flettner rotor , an alternative aerodynamic drive in the form of a rotating cylinder exposed to the wind flow
- the part of an automatic watch that winds it up using changes in position and gravity
- Rotor Motive , a former British car manufacturer
- Rotor (bicycle manufacturer)
- Rotor (power plant) , a small type of power plant floating in the river
Rotor is the family name of the following people:
- Gavino Rotor (1917–2005), orchid researcher
See also:
Wiktionary: Rotor - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: rotor - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with Rotor
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title includes Rotor
