Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that rotates.
- n. Anatomy A muscle that serves to rotate a part of the body.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which rotates, or causes rotation; any rotational agency or instrument.
- n. 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.
- n. In metal-working, a revolving or rotary furnace.
- n. 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.
- n. In mathematics, a quantity having magnitude, direction, and position; a rotor.
Wiktionary
- n. One that rotates.
- n. anatomy A muscle by which a joint can be rotated.
- n. A revolving reverberatory furnace.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
- n. (Metal.) A revolving reverberatory furnace.
Examples
“When people hear the term rotator cuff they think of surgery.”
“The thing that makes it different that the built-in windows rotator is that it rotates the orientation of the touchpad as well.”
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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.”
“Rand classified it as a posterior impingement in his shoulder, otherwise known as a rotator cuff injury.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“a random image rotator, which is a glorified array_rand ().”
“Advanced BioHealing said it sees potential in Dermagraft as an adjunct therapy in healing orthopedic soft tissue, such as rotator cuff repair.”
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“I have a very simple (literally 2 pages so far) website, xhtml+css, has a javascript kind of rotator main position/banner.”
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