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- English Word Rotacism Definition See Rhotacism.
- English Word Rotal Definition Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary.
- English Word Rotalite Definition Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.
- English Word Rotary Definition Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.
- English Word Rotascope Definition Same as Gyroscope, 1.
- English Word Rotate Definition Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
- English Word Rotate Definition To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
- English Word Rotate Definition To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
- English Word Rotate Definition To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
- English Word Rotate Definition To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
- English Word Rotated Definition of Rotate
- English Word Rotated Definition Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
- English Word Rotating Definition of Rotate
- English Word Rotation Definition The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.
- English Word Rotation Definition Any return or succesion in a series.
- English Word Rotation Definition Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
- English Word Rotative Definition turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
- English Word Rotator Definition that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
- English Word Rotator Definition A revolving reverberatory furnace.
- English Word Rotatoria Definition Same as Rotifera.