Noun

(en noun)

(British) A turn or deviation from a straight course.

* Take the second turning on the left.

(senseid)The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.

The act of turning.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

, author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}

(plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.

* The turnings get into your trouser turnups!

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.