Rotation (disambiguation)
- Rotation (disambiguation)
The term "rotation" can be used in several ways and includes various topics. Generally, it is used to denote (in 3D) the rotation of movement of a rigid body in such a way that any given point of that body remains at a constant distance from some fixed line (in 2D: point).
More specifically, it is applicable to:
* Crop rotation, a farming practice
* Job rotation, a business management approach
* Stock rotation, a retail practice
In physics:
* Differential rotation of objects
* Optical rotation polarization
* Rotational spectroscopy
In geometry and mathematics:
* Rotation (mathematics)
*Rotation group
* Coordinate rotation, the transformation of coordinate systems
* Improper rotation producing an inversion
* The curl of a vector field
* Bitwise rotation, a mathematical operator on bit patterns
In music:
* A term referring to the frequency of airplay of a particular song, e.g. heavy rotation
* Rotation (album), Cute Is What We Aim For's second studio album.
Other:
*Rotation (billiards), the name of a 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
*In medical education, rotation refers to the later part of medical training where students spend time in an actual hospital environment, as opposed to receiving classroom instruction
*In aviation, rotation refers to takeoff
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