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Rotation is a circular motion of a body about a center.

Rotation may also refer to:

Science, mathematics and computing

• Rotation (anatomy)
• Rotation (mathematics)
• Rotation (medicine), medical student training
• Rotation (physics), ratio between a given angle and a full turn of 2π radians
• Bitwise rotation, a mathematical operator on bit patterns
• Curl (mathematics), a vector operator
• Differential rotation, objects rotating at different speeds
• Display rotation, of a computer monitor or display
• Earth's rotation
• Improper rotation or rotoreflection, a rotation and reflection in one
• Internal rotation, a term in anatomy
• Optical rotation, rotation acting on polarized light
• Rotation around a fixed axis
• Rotational spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique
• Tree rotation, a well-known method used in order to make a tree balanced.

Arts, entertainment, and media

Politics

• Rotation government, the practice of a government switching Prime Ministers mid-term from an individual in one political party to a different individual in another political party

Other uses

• Rotation (aviation), the act of lifting the nose off the runway during takeoff
• Rotation, in baseball pitching; see the glossary of baseball
• Crop rotation, a farming practice
• Job rotation, a business management technique
• Robson Rotation, a method of having ballot papers in elections
• Stock rotation, a retail practice

See also

• Rotator (disambiguation)