Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that rotates.
- noun Anatomy A muscle that serves to rotate a part of the body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which rotates, or causes rotation; any rotational agency or instrument.
- noun Specifically, in anatomy, a muscle that produces a rolling or rotatory motion of a part; a muscle which rotates a part upon its own axis.
- noun In metal-working, a revolving or rotary furnace.
- noun In photometry, a mounting for an incandescent lamp so constructed that the lamp may be given a rapid rotation about its polar axis. By means of such a device the mean horizontal intensity of the lamp may be determined from a single photometric setting.
- noun In mathematics, a quantity having magnitude, direction, and position; a rotor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
- noun (Metal.) A revolving reverberatory furnace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One that
rotates . - noun anatomy A
muscle by which ajoint can be rotated. - noun A revolving
reverberatory furnace .
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Examples
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When people hear the term rotator cuff they think of surgery.
KYW Newsradio 1060 2010
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The thing that makes it different that the built-in windows rotator is that it rotates the orientation of the touchpad as well.
EeeRotate Orients Your Laptop Screen For Easy Reading | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Whether you've been relatively inactive or fairly athletic, age is the enemy of one of the most important sets of muscles in the body: the group of four known as the rotator cuff that surround the ball of the shoulder joint.
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Rand classified it as a posterior impingement in his shoulder, otherwise known as a rotator cuff injury.
Beck's Blog Beck 2010
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Changing the click stops is a pain on some rotators - it involves taking apart the rotator, which is too much no matter how easy they make that.
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The rotator cuff refers to a group of 4 muscles in the shoulder and their associated tendons which combine to form a broad conjoined tendon called the rotator cuff tendon.
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Still, such injuries can be a precursor to more serious problems such as rotator cuff and elbow ligament tears that are common in older players.
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a random image rotator, which is a glorified array_rand ().
Planet PHP 2009
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a random image rotator, which is a glorified array_rand ().
Planet PHP 2009
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Advanced BioHealing said it sees potential in Dermagraft as an adjunct therapy in healing orthopedic soft tissue, such as rotator cuff repair.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010
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Shape rotators are people who are good with math and abstract thought.
OK, WTF Are Wordcels and Shape Rotators? Matthew Gault 2024
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Much of America’s culture war can be cynically flattened and viewed through the lens of these two words; “woke” wordcels live in the land of philosophy and books and liberal colleges, clinging to ideals espoused in their precious books, tweeting about Wordle, while shape rotators are out here coding, building businesses, doing engineering, etc. etc.
OK, WTF Are Wordcels and Shape Rotators? Matthew Gault 2024
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