Rotation (disambiguation)

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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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