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Roration vs Rotation - What's the difference?

roration | rotation |

As nouns the difference between roration and rotation

is that roration is a falling of dew while rotation is rotation.

roration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A falling of dew.
    • With dawn we see the mark of yesternight’s roration .
  • * 1810 : James Kennedy, Glenochel: A Descriptive Poem in Two Volumes , volume 1, page 50
    • That in the bland rorations calm
    ?Their luscious redolence receive,
    And, with a still, ambrosial balm,
    ?Aromatize the breath of eve.

    Related terms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    References

    * The Universal Etymological English Dictionary'' (1727), volume II of ''
    ??A Falling of Dew. * “ ro?ration²]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

    rotation

    English

    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.

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