Rotation vs Revolve - What's the difference?
rotation | revolve |
(chiefly, uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
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A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
A regular variation in a sequence.
(mathematics) An operation that a continuous isometry deformation that fixes at least one point can result in.
(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.
(label) To orbit a central point.
To turn on an axis.
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(label) To recur in cycles.
(label) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.
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As a noun rotation
is the act of turning around a centre or an axis.As a verb revolve is
to orbit a central point.rotation
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Noun
(en noun)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.
- Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.
- crop rotation
- The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics.
- The function mapping (''x'',''y'') to (''&
- x2212;y'',''x'') is a rotation .
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Verb
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve . There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.
