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Slew vs Rotation - What's the difference?

slew | rotation |

As nouns the difference between slew and rotation

is that slew is (us) a large amount or slew can be the act, or process of slaying while rotation is rotation.

As a verb slew

is (nautical) to rotate or turn something about its axis or slew can be (slay).

slew

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (noun only)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) A large amount.
    • She has a slew of papers and notebooks strewn all over her desk.
    See also
    * onslaught

    Etymology 2

    In all senses, a mostly British spelling of slue.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act, or process of slaying.
  • A device used for slaying.
  • A change of position.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
  • To veer a vehicle.
  • To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
  • To pivot.
  • To skid.
  • (rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways
    • The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling
  • (transitive, British, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slay)

    • See also

    * slain

    Anagrams

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    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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