Rotation (disambiguation)

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Rotation is a circular motion of a body about a center.

Rotation may also refer to:

Physics

• Differential rotation of objects
• Optical rotation polarization
• Rotational spectroscopy

Mathematics

• Rotation (mathematics)
  • Rotation around a fixed axis, a subset of rotation with more constraints
• Improper rotation producing an inversion
• The curl of a vector field
• Bitwise rotation, a mathematical operator on bit patterns

Anatomy

• Internal rotation, rotation towards the center of the body
• External rotation, rotation away from the center of the body.

Music

• Rotation (music), a term referring to the frequency of airplay of a particular song
• Rotation, Cute Is What We Aim For's second studio album
• "Rotation", a song by Herb Alpert on his 1979 album Rise
• "Rotation (LOTUS-2)", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 2000 album Philosopher's Propeller
• "Rotate", a song off Capone-N-Noreaga's third album Channel 10

Other

• Crop rotation, a farming practice
• Job rotation, a business management approach
• Stock rotation, a retail practice
• Rotation (film), a 1949 East German film
• Rotation (pool), a type of pocket billiards game
• In baseball pitching, the rotation is the group of starting pitchers for a team, and the order in which they pitch
• Robson Rotation, the practice of printing multiple ballots for an election, each having the candidates listed in a different order
• Clerkship (medicine), also known as a rotation, referring in medical education to the later part of training where students spend time in a hospital environment, as opposed to receiving classroom instruction
• Rotation (aviation) refers to the act of lifting the nose off the runway during takeoff
• Display rotation, for the orientation of a page on the display device of a computer

See also

• Rotation group (disambiguation)

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