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Rotaries
- noun - a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary"
- electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that converts alternating to direct current or vice versa
Rotating
- verb - cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"
- exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"
- perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"
- plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
- turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
- turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
Rotation
- noun - (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
- 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"
- the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"
Rotative
- - turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
Rotaviri
- noun - the reovirus causing infant enteritis
Roturier
- - A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.
Roughing
- verb - prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
Roughish
- adjective - somewhat rough
Rounding
- verb - (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding"; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small"
- attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
- become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out"
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners"
- express as a round number; "round off the amount"
- make round; "round the edges"
- pronounce with rounded lips
- wind around; move along a circular course; "round the bend"
Roundish
- adjective - somewhat round in appearance or form