Noun

The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}

(physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.

(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.

An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

Noun

(en noun)

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

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03

, 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.