transitive and intransitive verb (past and past participlero·tat·ed, present participlero·tat·ing, 3rd person present singularro·tates)
Definition:
1. turn around axis: to turn like a wheel around an axis or a fixed point, or make something turn around an axis or a fixed point Earth rotates around the axis through its poles. The windmill's sails are rotated by the wind.
2. follow in order: to follow in a sequence, taking turns, or make things follow in such a sequence Rotate the plates in the pile so that they all get used.
3. human resources replace personnel: to be replaced by somebody else, or replace one person or group by another, e.g. in a sports team or military unit The manager rotates first-string players with promising newcomers in less important games.
4. agriculture vary crops: to vary the crops grown on the same piece of ground so as not to exhaust the soil or make it susceptible to disease, or be varied in this way
adjective
Definition:
wheel-shaped: having parts that radiate from a central point
[Late 17th century. Either < Latin rotat-, past participle of rotare< rota "wheel"; or back-formation <rotation]
