Aegrotat :: Aegrotat (n.) A medical certificate that a student is ill.

Circumrotate :: Circumrotate (v. t. & i.) To rotate about.

Circumrotation :: Circumrotation (n.) The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round..

Circumrotatory :: Circumrotatory (a.) turning, rolling, or whirling round..

Contrarotation :: Contrarotation (n.) Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.

Dextrorotatory :: Dextrorotatory (a.) Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory..

Irrotational :: Irrotational (a.) Not rotatory; passing from one point to another by a movement other than rotation; -- said of the movement of parts of a liquid or yielding mass.

Laevorotatory :: Laevorotatory (a.) Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory.

Levorotatory :: Levorotatory (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc..

Protatic :: Protatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the protasis of an ancient play; introductory.

Rotate :: Rotate (a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one..

Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve..

Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office..

Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle..

Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office..

Rotated :: Rotated (imp. & p. p.) of Rotat.

Rotated :: Rotated (a.) Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate..

Rotating :: Rotating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rotat.

Rotation :: Rotation (n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution..

Rotation :: Rotation (n.) Any return or succesion in a series.

Rotation :: Rotation (a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity..

Rotative :: Rotative (a.) turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational..

Rotator :: Rotator (n.) that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis..

Rotator :: Rotator (n.) A revolving reverberatory furnace.

Rotatoria :: Rotatoria (n. pl.) Same as Rotifera.

Rotatory :: Rotatory (a.) Turning as on an axis; rotary.

Rotatory :: Rotatory (a.) Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles..

Rotatory :: Rotatory (a.) Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization..

Rotatory :: Rotatory (n.) A rotifer.

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