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Rotate vs Transpose - What's the difference?

rotate | transpose |

As verbs the difference between rotate and transpose

is that rotate is to spin, turn, or revolve while transpose is .

As an adjective rotate

is having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

rotate

English

Verb

(rotat)
  • to spin, turn, or revolve.
  • He rotated in his chair to face me.
  • to advance through a sequence; to take turns.
  • The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
  • (of aircraft) to lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
  • The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
  • to spin, turn, or revolve something.
  • Rotate the dial to the left.
  • to advance something through a sequence.
  • to replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
  • The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.
  • (of crops) to grow or plant in a certain order.
  • Synonyms

    * (to turn) revolve * (to make turn) circumvolve

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
  • a rotate''' spicule or scale; a '''rotate corolla
    English ergative verbs ----

    transpose

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) transposer, from (etyl) perfect passive participle transpositus'', from ''transponere'', to put across, from ''trans'', across, and ''ponere , to put

    Verb

    (transpos)
  • To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
  • (music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key
  • (algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term. In matrix mathematics, the process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (adjective, algebra) In matrix mathematics, a matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix.
  • Noun

    (s)
  • (adjective, algebra) In matrix mathematics, the resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
  • Synonyms
    * (''reverse or change the order of'): exchange, interchange, swap, swap over, swap round, switch
    Derived terms
    * transposable * transposal * transposase * transposer * transposing * transposition * transposon

    Etymology 2

    From the verb.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linear algebra) In matrix mathematics, the process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
  • Anagrams

    * patroness English heteronyms ----