Synonyms of the word

rotation

• n. (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
• n. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
• n. A regular variation in a sequence.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least…
• n. (baseball) The set of starting of a team.
• n. (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the…
• n. Repeated play on a radio station, etc.

gyration

• n. The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an…
• n. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
• n. Appropriate arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex.

motility

• n. (uncountable) The state of being motile.
• n. (countable) The degree to which something is motile.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

revolution

• n. A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
• n. The removal and replacement of a government.
• n. Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.
• n. A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.
• n. In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
• n. A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

sequence

• n. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
• n. A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in…
• n. A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the…
• n. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects.
• n. (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
• n. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
• n. (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the…
• v. (transitive) to arrange in an order.
• v. (transitive) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in…
• v. (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer.

succession

• n. An act of following in sequence.
• n. A sequence of things in order.
• n. A passing of royal powers.
• n. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
• n. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

successiveness

• n. The quality or state of being successive.

transformation

• n. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
• n. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
• n. (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of…
• n. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived…
• n. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if…
• n. (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist…

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

turning

• n. (Britain) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
• n. (field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their…
• n. The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
• n. The act of turning.
• n. (plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
• v. present participle of turn.