Rotation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rotationRotational transfer
Rotational transfer, the expression 'rotational transfer' has nothing to do with the right of the incumbents to hold the posts permanently. The dictionary meaning of 'rotational' is, regular and recurring; succession in office or duties. An element of rotation must be involved in rotational transfer, P.G. Joshi v. Director General, Posts and Telegraphs, AIR 1975 SC 1 (1975) 4 SCC 584: (1975) 2 SCR 115....
Rotate
Having the parts spreading out like a wheel wheel shaped as a rotate spicule or scale a rotate corolla ie a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border and no tube or a very short one...
Rotated
Turned round as a wheel also wheel shaped rotate...
Rotation
The act of turning as a wheel or a solid body on its axis as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point thus the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation its annual motion round the sun is a revolution...
Rotator
that which gives a rotary or rolling motion as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis...
Sheriff's Tourn or Rotation
Sheriff's Tourn or Rotation, a Court of record held twice every year, within a month after Easter and Michaelmas, before the sheriff, in different parts of the county, being indeed only the turn of the sheriff to keep a Court-leet in each respective hundred; this, therefore, was the great Court-leet of the county, as the county Court was the Court-baron; but the 'tourn,' which had been long obsolete, was expressly abolished by s. 18, sub-s. 4, of the Sheriffs Act, 1887....
Gyroscope
A rotating wheel mounted in a ring or rings for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies the composition of rotations etc It was devised by Professor W R Johnson in 1832 by whom it was called the rotascope...
Blanchard lathe
A kind of wood turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms as felloes gun stocks lasts spokes etc after a given pattern The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern...
egg beater
a small device having one or usually two blades each having several stiff oval wires at the tip The blades are swirled or rotated for beating eggs or whipping cream The electrical variety typically have two such blades which are arranged so that the tips of the blades interlace while rotating...
Freewheel
A clutch fitted in the rear hub of a cycle which engages the rear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes operated by back pedaling...
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