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Rotalite
- - Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.
Rotarian
- noun - a member of a Rotary Club
Rotaries
- noun - a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary"
- electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that converts alternating to direct current or vice versa
Rotating
- verb - cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"
- exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"
- perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"
- plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
- turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
- turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
Rotation
- noun - (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
- 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"
- 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"
- the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"
Rotative
- - turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
Rotatory
- adjective - of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn
Rotavate
- unknown - break up or till (soil) using a rotavator.
"the field has been ploughed and rotavated"
Definitions from Oxford Languages
- To mechanically till soil.
Rotaviri
- noun - the reovirus causing infant enteritis
Rotenone
- noun - a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube