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Rotation

Noun

Definiciones

1.NounThe 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."
2.NounA single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
"Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so."
3.NounA regular variation in a sequence, such as to even out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.
"Applying crop rotation to a field avoids depleting soil nutrients the way repeated use of a single crop might do.; In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire.; The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics."
4.NounТhe movement of investments between different sectors of an economy, or styles of investing, based on anticipated changes in the economic or market cycle.
"Sector rotation attempts to capitalize on the tendency of certain sectors to outperform others during specific economic phases, while style rotation involves shifting investments between different investment styles, such as moving from growth stocks to value stocks."
5.NounAn operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.
"The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation."
6.NounThe set of starting pitchers of a team.
7.NounThe step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll. (see also: V2)
8.NounRepeated play of songs on a radio station, advertisements on a television channel, etc.
"The new single enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV."
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