Rotation (disambiguation)

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 around a fixed axis, a subset of rotation with more constraints
• 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:

• Rotation (music), a term referring to the frequency of airplay of a particular song
• Rotation (album), Cute Is What We Aim For's second studio album.
• Rotate (song), a song off Capone-N-Noreaga's third album Channel 10.

Other:

• Rotation (film), the film of that name.
• Rotation (pool), a type of pocket 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
• Clerkship (medicine), also known as a rotation, referring in medical education to the later part of training where students spend time in a hospital environment, as opposed to receiving classroom instruction
• Rotation (aviation) refers to the act of lifting the nose off the runway during takeoff
• Display rotation, for the orientation of a page on the display device of a computer