🔁 Regular schedule 🌍 Turning movement 🔄 Turning in math 🔐 Changing regularly

rotation

4.0

Regularly replacing passwords or security keys to keep systems safe

noun
/roʊˈteɪʃən/

Specialized

: rotación

a rotation policy

Examples

Authorization to commence routine procedural rotation of sector two, agent Sang to supervise.

Night Watch (1995)
To enhance security, it is crucial to implement a regular rotation of passwords throughout the organization.
The IT department proposed a rotation scheme for updating cryptographic keys every three months.
Establishing a rotation policy for user tokens ensures that credentials remain secure against potential threats.

Compounds

axis of rotation

Specialized

1 4.3

A straight line that an object turns around

clockwise rotation

1 3.5

A movement that turns in the same direction as the hands of a clock

orbital rotation

Specialized

1 7.0

An object moving in a curved path around another object, not spinning on itself

counterclockwise rotation

1 4.1

A movement that turns to the left, the opposite direction of a clock's hands

axial rotation

Specialized

1 6.5

Turning of an object around a line through its middle

Surface Forms

rotation singular

rotations plural

Morphology

rotation = rotate (transparent) = rotate + ion

The security practice meaning ('regularly replacing') is an extension of 'to rotate' in the sense of replacing or cycling items, so the nominalization is regular and learnable.

Etymology

Rotation comes from the Latin root rotare, from rota meaning 'wheel', and it means 'to turn'. In security a rotation is the regular 'turning' or changing of passwords and keys, so old credentials are replaced by new ones to keep systems safe.