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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