| rotation Feb 24th 2013, 16:05 | | | | Line 17: | Line 17: | | | #: ''The function mapping (''x'',''y'') to (''−y'',''x'') is a '''rotation'''.'' | | #: ''The function mapping (''x'',''y'') to (''−y'',''x'') is a '''rotation'''.'' | | | # {{baseball}} The set of {{soplink|starting|pitchers}} of a team. | | # {{baseball}} The set of {{soplink|starting|pitchers}} of a team. | | | + | #{{aviation}} The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll.<!--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_%28aviation%29--> | | | | | | | | ====Translations==== | | ====Translations==== |
Latest revision as of 16:05, 24 February 2013 [edit] English [edit] Etymology From Latin rotationem, accusative of rotatio. rotation (plural rotations) - (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
- The earth's rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere.
- A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
- Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.
- A regular variation in a sequence.
- crop rotation
- The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics.
- (mathematics) An isometry that fixes precisely one point.
- The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation.
- (baseball) The set of starting pitchers of a team.
- (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll.
[edit] Translations a single cycle of turning regular variation in a sequence [edit] External links
[edit] French [edit] Etymology Latin rotationem, accusative of rotatio. rotation f. (plural rotations) - rotation
[edit] Swedish rotation c. - act of turning a physical object or a coordinate system around a center or an axis
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