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rotation

Rotation is the action of moving around an axis or center. A rotation is one full turn back to the original position. The planet Earth completes one rotation each day.

rotation

the act of rotating as if on an axis the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.) crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation (= revolution) a single complete turn (axial or orbital) the plane made three rotations before it crashed the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin

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Simple sentences

Days get longer by about 1.7 millisecond per century because the moon is slowing the Earth's rotation.
The rapid rotation of Uranus causes winds up to 600 kilometers per hour to blow in its atmosphere.
Uranus' magnetic field and rotation axis are out of alignment by 59 degrees, unlike Earth's, whose magnetic field and rotation axis are nearly aligned.

Movie subtitles

I consider the rotation system a solid contract between the army and myself.
They never heard of rotation.
A severe shift of the Earth's angle of rotation.
Stop pod rotation, please, hai.
I'm due for rotation myself in a couple of months, if I don't cause trouble or break any rules.
As of now, the number of missions required before you are eligible for rotation is raised to 75.
Yet again, this whole aircraft moves with the rotation of the earth.
You see, pressure on the case when the desired symbols appear causes the rotation of the cylinders to stutter at the precise moment needed to?
But the fourth bullet, the lethal bullet, has left rotation.
We have to take them in rotation.
Dinner rotation will start with cell block 3A.
A good service: bend your knees, left foot ahead, hammer position...waist rotation and violently.
Those are rotation missiles. Mechagodzilla has new weapons.
The rotation of the wheel is shown on the meter.
At the end of the 1920s the young astronomer Jan Oort derived the rotation of the Galaxy from movements of the stars in the Sun's neighbourhood.
The location and the time are dictated by the Earth's rotation and the consequent trajectory of firing.
Rotation?
Talk to him, amuse him-- anything at all. We'll work in shifts and go on rotation.
Stop pod rotation, please, Hal.
You see, pressure on the case when the desired symbols appear causes the rotation of the cylinders to stutter at the precise moment needed to.
A three-shift rotation.
No rotation is planned; I need volunteers.
When they farmed this place, they didn't know about soil conservation or crop rotation.
I could have talked about rotation in space, series of numbers, or cristals symetry.
And the effect on the Earth's rotation?
The room is small. Call the people by rotation.
Planet's rotation is carrying primary target beyond arc of phaser lock.
I'm due for rotation myself soon if I don't cause trouble or break any rules.
Around me, rotation.
Well, perhaps in small numbers, in orderly rotation.
Any rotation?
THE REVERSAL ROTATION LOCK AUTOMATICALLY RETURNS THE MACHINE TO ITS STARTING DATE AFTER THE COMPLETION OF A VOYAGE.
Humason had to stay awake, tracking the galaxy while elaborate machinery moved the telescope slowly in the opposite direction, to compensate for Earth's rotation.

News and current affairs

A rule that requires a rotation of votes among Council members, or that groups them into voting blocs, could replace the current one-man-one-vote scheme.
In the end, one either believes that free and fair elections, respect for individual rights and liberties, and rotation in power are the essence of democracy, or one does not.
After years of rotation every six months, we handed the job over to the EU's new permanent structures, established in Brussels in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty.
Last spring, 200 US Marines arrived in Darwin, Australia, for the first six-month rotation to serve and train alongside Australian troops and operate with regional partners.
Peres could, for example, make both Livni and Netanyahu prime ministers, using a two-year rotation formula.
The ECB has thought about this problem, but all that has been agreed (in the Nice Treaty) is some modest rotation of voting membership as the federation grows further.
Their proposal was categorically rejected in a joint submission by 16 existing or future member states, all of them small countries, who insisted that the principle of rotation must be retained, as a symbol of the equality of all member states.
In August 2011, India will preside over the Council by alphabetical rotation, and may find itself playing a key role in the election (most likely the re-election) of the UN Secretary-General, which must take place before the end of the year.
Ever since, a country that had never truly experienced democratic rule has enjoyed all the charms and vicissitudes of competitive elections, legislative battles, and rotation in power.
In the case of the Fed, seven members of the Board in Washington have a federal remit, and twelve presidents of regional reserve banks vote in rotation, with only the New York president having a permanent voice.

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