Spin on an axis

Usage examples of rotate.

The screw aft of the rudder, a moment before pumping water forward, slowed, stopped and began rotating in the opposite direction, now pumping water aft, thrusting the ship forward.

Mark commanded the map to rotate in model space to align the viewpoint with his own current position.

But now, with the islands rotating - no matter how slowly - even that could not be relied upon, and the alongshore races were alarmingly unpredictable.

Pumps had no rotating parts and pushed the coolant through the loops using magnetism.

She then applied the plane generated by taking the seventh angle cosecant of a trisected cone that had been created from a five dimensionally rotated equilateral right triangle-impossible without awareness of ireality mathematics-and then combined the resulting geometric paradox to the chronowarp.

Sun, like all other visible stars, is gaseous and not a solid, it rotates on its axis at sharply different speeds, depending on how far from the solar equator a spot is.

The most complex of all the movements performed by sleeping plants, is that when leaves or leaflets, after describing in the daytime several vertically directed ellipses, rotate greatly on their axes in the evening, by which twisting movement they occupy a wholly different position at night to what they do during the day.

She walked in a circle around Lady Sunshine, while Lady Sunshine watched her with a wary rotating eye, ready to lurch if the dryad attempted to move in her direction.

He was coming up beneath its tail, and with luck the empennage would shield him from the rotating radar antenna.

She certainly preferred a letter to a mistimed telephone call, for the family, when far away as they were all far away now, were not at all adept at calculating the difference in hours between their time zones and her own-even when earlier, holding and rotating apples plucked from the epergne, they attempted to work out which way it was the globe turned and whether they should add or subtract a three or a six or a twelve from the local time told on their wristwatch faces.

If you go once around the epicycle while the deferent rotates once, you trace out the ellipse.

Inside the ergosphere we would be constrained to rotate with the hole.

The ergosphere was a rotating fat waist in he diagram, but ahead bulged something spitting light like an angry, etting sun.

Interestingly, they did not snap, but rotated rapidly around a central esophageal axis.

The huge fairwater planes on the sail, each the size of a garage door, were rotated so they pointed straight up and down to clear the ice.