Rotation (disambiguation)

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.

Music

 * Rotation (Cute Is What We Aim For album), 2008
 * Rotation (Joe McPhee album), 1977
 * Rotation (music), the repeated airing of a limited playlist of songs on a radio station
 * "Rotate" (song), a song on the album Channel 10 by Capone-N-Noreaga
 * "Rotation", a song on the 1979 album Rise by Herb Alpert
 * "Rotation (LOTUS-2)", a song on the 2000 album Philosopher's Propeller by Susumu Hirasawa

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * Rotation (film), a 1949 East German film
 * Rotation (pool), a type of pocket billiards game

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