rotationally
- adverb
- /roʊˈteɪʃənəli/
- The most common example of a rotationally symmetric shape is a circle, which looks the same from any angle.
It's not this, this, we're not in a rotationally invariant state.
- It's not this, this, we're not in a rotationally invariant state.
- So the only thing that could possibly commute with with this thing is something that is rotationally invariant.
Examples
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The liquid phase of water is rotationally symmetric because it looks the same regardless of which direction we look at it.
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It's a vector equation, it has three components, and it's rotationally invariant.
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It's not this, this, we're not in a rotationally invariant state.
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But you know, we keep on saying that really things should be rotationally symmetric.
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In reality, all of these elements are rotationally symmetric surfaces of revolution.
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So as the engine spun more quickly, the weights would swing out and cause the ignition timing device to move rotationally on the shaft here.
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At the surface-melting temperature, a completely disordered layer exists on the surface above the rotationally disordered layer.
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If there is an interactive vacuum background of any kind, the fused silica ball will be rotationally inert over time.
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The ultrasound transducers could scan the residual limb rotationally and vertically to collect images.
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Thus, superimposing all states that are related by rotations, we obtain a state Phi = Sigma R RPsi that is rotationally invariant:
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
Moving or placed in a circle
Surface Forms
Morphology
rotationally = rotational (transparent) = rotate + ion + al + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'rotational', producing a straightforward adverb meaning 'in a rotational manner'.
Etymology
Rotationally comes from the Latin word rota, meaning 'wheel', and from the English verb rotate, which means 'to turn'. So, if something happens rotationally, it happens 'by turning' like a wheel.