Noun

(uncountable) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.

(uncountable) A position relative to compass bearings

(uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end

(countable) An inclination, tendency or direction

(countable) The ability to orient

(countable) An adjustment to a new environment

(countable) An introduction to a (new) environment

(typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait

(mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space

Noun

(en noun)

(chiefly, uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.

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, author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

The earth's rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere.

A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.

Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.

A regular variation in a sequence.

crop rotation

The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics.

(mathematics) An operation that a continuous isometry deformation that fixes at least one point can result in.

The function mapping (''x'',''y'') to (''&

x2212;y'',''x'') is a rotation .

(baseball) The set of (soplink) of a team.

(aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll.