rotation

Noun

• a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)
  • crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil
    
  • the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation
    

• a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
  • the plane made three rotations before it crashed
    
  • the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year
    

• (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin

• the act of rotating as if on an axis
  • the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  revolution , gyration , rotary motion