Five pitchers are to take the mound in rotation.
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Rotation
//ɹoʊˈteɪʃən//
Synonyms for "rotation" (125 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (62)
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4 entriesderived
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1 entrieshas context
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37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
Translations
92 translations across 38 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- rotasie noun (act of turning around a centre)
Albanian
1 entries- rrotullim noun (act of turning around a centre)
Amharic
1 entries- ሽክርክር noun (act of turning around a centre)
Arabic
1 entries- دَوْرَة noun (act of turning around a centre)
Armenian
3 entries- պտույտ noun (act of turning around a centre)
- պտույտ noun (single cycle of turning)
- պտույտ noun (isometry)
Belarusian
3 entries- абаро́т noun (single cycle of turning)
- вярчэ́нне noun (act of turning around a centre)
- чаргава́нне noun (regular variation in a sequence)
Bulgarian
3 entries- върте́не noun (act of turning around a centre)
- оборо́т noun (single cycle of turning)
- реду́ване noun (regular variation in a sequence)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 旋轉 /旋转 noun (act of turning around a centre)
- 旋轉 /旋转 noun (single cycle of turning)
- 自轉 /自转 noun (act of turning around a centre)
- 迴轉 /回转 noun (act of turning around a centre)
Dutch
3 entries- draaiing noun (single cycle of turning)
- rotatie noun (act of turning around a centre)
- rotatie noun (isometry)
Finnish
4 entries- kierto noun (regular variation in a sequence)
- kierto noun (isometry)
- pyöriminen noun (act of turning around a centre)
- pyörähdys noun (single cycle of turning)
French
2 entries- rotation noun (act of turning around a centre)
- tour noun (single cycle of turning)
Galician
1 entries- rotación noun (act of turning around a centre)
German
2 entries- Rotation noun (act of turning around a centre)
- Umdrehung noun (single cycle of turning)
Greek
4 entries- περιστροφή noun (act of turning around a centre)
- περιστροφή noun (isometry)
- στροφή noun (single cycle of turning)
- στροφή noun (regular variation in a sequence)
Hindi
1 entries- घूर्णन noun (act of turning around a centre)
Indonesian
2 entries- putaran noun (act of turning around a centre)
- rotasi noun (act of turning around a centre)
Italian
4 entries- ciclo completo noun (single cycle of turning)
- giro completo noun (single cycle of turning)
- rivoluzione noun (single cycle of turning)
- rotazione noun (act of turning around a centre)
Japanese
3 entries- 回転 noun (act of turning around a centre)
- 回転 noun (single cycle of turning)
- 自転 noun (act of turning around a centre)
Kazakh
1 entries- айналу noun (act of turning around a centre)
Korean
2 entries- 순환 noun (act of turning around a centre)
- 회전 noun (single cycle of turning)
Latin
1 entries- rotatio noun (act of turning around a centre)
Malay
1 entries- putaran noun (act of turning around a centre)
Malayalam
2 entries- തിരിയല് noun (act of turning around a centre)
- ഭ്രമണം noun (act of turning around a centre)
Māori
2 entries- hurihanga noun (isometry)
- tāwhirowhironga noun (act of turning around a centre)
Old English
2 entries- wendung noun (act of turning around a centre)
- ymbhwyrft noun (act of turning around a centre)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- اداره noun (act of turning around a centre)
- دوره noun (act of turning around a centre)
- دوره noun (single cycle of turning)
- چرخ noun (act of turning around a centre)
Persian
1 entries- چَرْخِش noun (act of turning around a centre)
Polish
2 entries- obracanie noun (act of turning around a centre)
- obrót noun (single cycle of turning)
Portuguese
2 entries- rotação noun (act of turning around a centre)
- rotação noun (single cycle of turning)
Russian
4 entries- вито́к noun (single cycle of turning)
- враще́ние noun (act of turning around a centre)
- оборо́т noun (single cycle of turning)
- поворо́т noun (isometry)
Spanish
1 entries- rotación noun (act of turning around a centre)
Swedish
3 entries- rotation noun (act of turning around a centre)
- rotation noun (isometry)
- varv noun (single cycle of turning)
Tagalog
2 entries- inog noun (act of turning around a centre)
- inog noun (single cycle of turning)
Telugu
1 entries- భ్రమణం noun (act of turning around a centre)
Thai
1 entries- การหมุน noun (act of turning around a centre)
Turkish
4 entries- deveran noun (act of turning around a centre)
- devir noun (act of turning around a centre)
- devir noun (single cycle of turning)
- dönüş noun (act of turning around a centre)
Ukrainian
4 entries- верті́ння noun (act of turning around a centre)
- вито́к noun (single cycle of turning)
- о́берт noun (single cycle of turning)
- оберта́ння noun (act of turning around a centre)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phép quay noun (isometry)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
Job rotation is essential to running a business.
Source: tatoeba (636249)
The earth completes a rotation around its axis in exactly one day.
Source: tatoeba (2895256)
Days get longer by about 1.7 millisecond per century because the moon is slowing the Earth's rotation.
Source: tatoeba (3951863)
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