Word Meanings - ROTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion

Additional info about word: ROTATION

1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution. 2. Any return or succesion in a series. Moment of rotation. See Moment of inertia, under Moment. -- Rotation in office, the practice of changing public officers at frequent intervals by discharges and substitutions. -- Rotation of crops, the practices of cultivating an orderly succession of different crops on the same land.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROTATION)

• Revolution
• Rotation
• periodicity
• return
• change
• alteration
• revulsion
• revolt
• reconstitution
• emeute
• Routine
• Round
• course
• succession
• order
• rule
• custom
• system
• sequence
• gradation
• rotation
• stereotype
• prescription
• tenor
• uniformity
• method
• settlement
• regulation
• Succession
• Following
• supervention
• consecution
• series
• continuity
• supply
• suite
• Turn
• recurrence
• vicissitude
• winding
• bend
• deflection
• curve
• alternation
• opportunity
• occasion
• time
• deed
• office
• act
• treatment
• purpose
• requirement
• convenience
• talent
• gift
• tendency
• character
• exigence
• crisis
• form
• cast
• shape
• manner
• mold
• fashion
• cut

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ROTATION)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to ROTATION)

• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• STEREOTYPER
  One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• SUPPLY
  1. The act of supplying; supplial. A. Tucker. 2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically: -- Auxiliary troops or reënforcements. "My promised supply of horsemen." Shak. The food, and the like, which meets
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.