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

Rotation may also refer to:

Science, mathematics and computing

  • Rotation (anatomy)
  • Rotation (mathematics)
  • Rotation (medicine), medical student training
  • Rotation (physics), ratio between a given angle and a full turn of 2π radians
  • Circular shift, an operation on a tuple
  • Bitwise rotation, a mathematical operator on bit patterns
  • Curl (mathematics), a vector operator
  • Differential rotation, objects rotating at different speeds
  • Display rotation, of a computer monitor or display
  • Earth's rotation
  • Improper rotation or rotoreflection, a rotation and reflection in one
  • Internal rotation, a term in anatomy
  • Optical rotation, rotation acting on polarized light
  • Rotation around a fixed axis
  • Rotational spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique
  • Tree rotation, a well-known method used in order to make a tree balanced.

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

  • Rotation (Cute Is What We Aim For album), 2008
  • Rotation (Joe McPhee album), 1977
  • Rotation (music), the repeated airing of a limited playlist of songs on a radio station
  • "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 in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Rotation (film), a 1949 East German film
  • Rotation (pool), a type of pocket billiards game
  • SC Rotation Leipzig, former name for the German sports club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig

Politics

  • Rotation government, the practice of a government switching Prime Ministers mid-term from an individual in one political party to a different individual in another political party

Other uses

  • Rotation (aviation), the act of lifting the nose off the runway during takeoff
  • Rotation, in baseball pitching; see the glossary of baseball
  • Crop rotation, a farming practice
  • Job rotation, a business management technique
  • Robson Rotation, a method of having ballot papers in elections
  • Stock rotation, a retail practice

See also

  • Rotator (disambiguation)