Wiktionary
a. (context engineering astrophysics English) That does not rotate.
Usage examples of "nonrotating".
The most conspicuous object among them, still not very conspicuous, was something that looked a little like the nonrotating black hole I had once lost Klara in, but not as large and not as threatening.
The biodevice was a tried and true version of the basic model the Nar had used for airless planetoids and nonrotating space structures.
In a fast-foot shuffle to accommodate this awkward state of affairs, the relativists decided that everything should be referred to a nonrotating Earth-centered frame, relative to which everything was moving east, and hence it was possible to describe the three clocks as moving "slow" (westbound), "slower" (Washington, D.
He went to one of the transfer chambers for getting from the rotating ring to the nonrotating parts of the ship.