Rotation (disambiguation)

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

Rotation may also refer to:

Science, mathematics and computing

• Rotation (mathematics)
• Rotation around a fixed axis
• Curl (mathematics), a vector operator
• Improper rotation or rotoreflection, a rotation and reflection in one
• Differential rotation, objects rotating at different speeds
• Optical rotation, rotation acting on polarized light
• Rotational spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique
• Internal rotation, a term in anatomy
• Earth's rotation
• Bitwise rotation, a mathematical operator on bit patterns
• Display rotation, of a computer monitor or display
• Tree rotation, a well-known method used in order to make a tree balanced.

Music

• Rotation (music), the repeated airing of a limited playlist of songs on a radio station
• Rotation (album), an album by Cute Is What We Aim For
• Rotation (Joe McPhee album), 1977
• "Rotate" (song), a song on the album Channel 10 by Capone-N-Noreaga
• "Rotation", a song on the 1979 album Rise by Herb Alpert
• "Rotation (LOTUS-2)", a song on the 2000 album Philosopher's Propeller by Susumu Hirasawa

Other uses

• Crop rotation, a farming practice
• Job rotation, a business management technique
• Stock rotation, a retail practice
• Rotation (film), a 1949 East German film
• Rotation (pool), a type of pocket billiards game
• Rotation, in baseball pitching; see the glossary of baseball
• Rotation (medicine), medical student training
• Rotation (aviation), the act of lifting the nose off the runway during takeoff
• Robson Rotation, a method of having ballot papers in elections

See also

• Rotation group (disambiguation)