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ro·tate

 (rō′tāt)
v. ro·tat·ed, ro·tat·ing, ro·tates
v.intr.
1. To turn around on an axis or center. See Synonyms at turn.
2. To proceed in sequence; take turns or alternate: Interns will rotate through the various departments.
v.tr.
1. To cause to turn on an axis or center.
2.
a. To plant or grow (crops) in a fixed order of succession.
b. To cause to alternate or proceed in sequence: The coach rotates her players frequently near the end of the game.
adj.
Having radiating parts; wheel-shaped.

[Latin rotāre, rotāt-, from rota, wheel; see ret- in Indo-European roots.]

ro′tat′a·ble adj.
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rotating

(rəʊˈteɪtɪŋ)
adj
1. revolving around a central axis, line, or point: the rotating blades of a helicopter.
2. passing in turn to each of two or more eligible parties: the rotating presidency of the EU.
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Translations

rotating

[rəʊˈteɪtɪŋ] ADJ [blade] → rotativo, giratorio; [presidency] → rotatorio
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rotating

[rəʊˈteɪtɪŋ] adj
[movement] → tournant(e)
[presidency, chairmanship] → tournant(e)
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rotating

adj (= revolving)rotierend, sich drehend; cropsim Wechsel angebaut; presidencyim Turnus wechselnd; on a rotating basisin einem gewissen Turnus
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rotating

[rəʊˈteɪtɪŋ] adj (revolving) → rotante
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References in classic literature ?
Even to me, a Mathematician of no mean standing, and the Grandfather of two most hopeful and perfectly regular Hexagons, to find myself in the midst of a crowd of rotating Polygons of the higher classes, is occasionally very perplexing.
The meanest mathematician in Spaceland will readily believe me when I assert that the problems of life, which present themselves to the well-educated -- when they are themselves in motion, rotating, advancing or retreating, and at the same time attempting to discriminate by the sense of sight between a number of Polygons of high rank moving in different directions, as for example in a ball-room or conversazione -- must be of a nature to task the angularity of the most intellectual, and amply justify the rich endowments of the Learned Professors of Geometry, both Static and Kinetic, in the illustrious University of Wentbridge, where the Science and Art of Sight Recognition are regularly taught to large classes of the ELITE of the States.
And then he perceived that, very slowly, the circular top of the cylinder was rotating on its body.
"Can this be death?" thought Prince Andrew, looking with a quite new, envious glance at the grass, the wormwood, and the streamlet of smoke that curled up from the rotating black ball.
All this time the harlequin was rotating like a beautiful fish, and David requested him to jump through the wall, at which he is such an adept, and first he said he would, and then he said better not, for the last time he did it the people in the next house had made such a fuss.
He sat in a rotating chair behind a broad table, which was covered with books, maps, and diagrams.
Farm it like your vegetable plot, intensively, all the year, in crops that make horse-feed, irrigating, fertilizing, rotating your crops.
Butteridge was likely to affect either of their lives in any special manner, that it would in any way single them out from the millions about them; and when they had witnessed it from the crest of Bun Hill and seen the fly-like mechanism, its rotating planes a golden haze in the sunset, sink humming to the harbour of its shed again, they turned back towards the sunken green-grocery beneath the great iron standard of the London to Brighton mono-rail, and their minds reverted to the discussion that had engaged them before Mr.
The front wheel had retained its tyre, was intact, was still rotating slowly among the blackened and twisted ruins of the rest of the machine.
(Meralco) could experience rotating brownouts on Thursday, possibly in the afternoon, as the Luzon grid was placed under red and yellow alerts anew.
Summary: the global rotating equipment repair market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 4.6% between 2018 and 2028