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rotation

noun as in turn

Strongest match

Weak match

noun as in turn in circle

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The design offers independent screen rotation and positioning, and each can tilt back up to 70 degrees or forward by 5 degrees.

Huddles typically last a few hours, during which the penguins may cycle through multiple rotations from the huddle’s cold exterior to its warm interior.

They give the Nationals what projects to be one of the top rotations in the NL.

ROMY could also detect a change in Earth’s spin rate so small that it would add up to only a four-second difference in the length of a day, over a single rotation.

That offseason, the Dodgers signed Zack Greinke to join Kershaw, pairing Cy Young winners at the top of the rotation.

Following one week of “R&R,” the team will spend one more six-week rotation in the ETU before entering a three-week isolation.

"Palmer always keeps his word," beamed Weaver, putting the right hander back in the rotation.

Others who will join the rotation include Alan Alda, Candice Bergen, Stacy Keach, and Carol Burnett.

I heard no recent jazz releases, or any of the tracks currently in heavy rotation on the few remaining jazz radio stations.

Of course, that relates to the other rotation of the spin herethat she was difficult and demanding.

The special application of these facts must be reserved till we come to treat of the rotation of crops.

The remarkable difference in the proportion of these elements has been supposed to afford an explanation of rotation.

Such an atom would by the rotation of the sphere accomplish no motion except, indeed, that it might turn round on its own centre.

This evidence does not require us to abandon the supposition that the tides tend to diminish the earth's rate of rotation.

In mammals the head rotates more easily, but valuable time is lost in the rotation of the whole body.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rotation, such as: orbit, circle, circumvolution, gyration, revolution, and circumrotation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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