Slue vs Rotation - What's the difference?
slue | rotation |
(nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
To turn something sharply.
* Charles Dickens
To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
To slide off course; to skid.
The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
A slough; a run or wet place.
(chiefly, uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
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, author=Frank Fish, George Lauder
, title=Not Just Going with the Flow
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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.
As nouns the difference between slue and rotation
is that slue is the act of sluing or the place to which something has slued while rotation is the act of turning around a centre or an axis.As a verb slue
is to rotate something on an axis.slue
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Alternative forms
* (mostly British ) slewVerb
(slu)- They laughed, and slued themselves round.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*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 .
