rotation rotary motion | the act of rotating as if on an axis, the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music |
airplane aeroplane plane r | an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets, the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane |
axis axis of rotation | the center around which something rotates |
beading plane | a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork |
block plane | a small plane used on end grains of wood |
bullnose bullnosed plane | a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front |
chamfer plane | a plane that makes a beveled edge |
circular plane compass plane | a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces |
combination plane | a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes |
dado plane | a plane for making a dado groove |
double-prop double-propeller plane twin-prop twin-propeller-plane | a propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability) |
dovetail plane | a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints |
floatplane pontoon plane | a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water |
fore plane | a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane |
inclined plane | a simple machine for elevating objects, consists of plane surface that makes an acute angle with the horizontal |
jack plane | a carpenter's plane for rough finishing |
jet jet plane jet-propelled plane | an airplane powered by one or more jet engines |
jointer jointer plane jointing plane long plane | a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together |
match plane tonguing and grooving plane | a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards |
multiengine airplane multiengine plane | a plane with two or more engines |
openside plane rabbet plane | a woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets |
plane carpenter's plane woodworking plane | a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood, the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work |
plane planer planing machine | a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood |
plane seat | a seat on a commercial airliner |
plane table | surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board and a ruler that are mounted on a tripod, used to sight and map topographical details |
propeller plane | an airplane that is driven by a propeller |
propjet turboprop turbo-propeller plane | an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine |
reconnaissance plane | a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy |
router plane | a woodworking plane with a narrow cutting head that will make grooves with smooth bottoms |
scrub plane | a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock |
single prop single-propeller plane | a propeller plane with a single propeller |
ski-plane | an airplane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield |
smooth plane smoothing plane | a small plane for finish work |
tanker plane | an airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire |
warplane military plane | an aircraft designed and used for combat |
rotation | a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.), crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil, the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation |
plane geometry | the geometry of -dimensional figures |
plane ticket airplane ticket | a ticket good for a trip on an airplane |
rotation revolution gyration | a single complete turn (axial or orbital), the plane made three rotations before it crashed, the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year |
dextrorotation clockwise rotation | rotation to the right |
levorotation counterclockwise rotation | rotation to the left |
axial rotation axial motion roll | rotary motion of an object around its own axis, wheels in axial rotation |
orbital rotation orbital motion | motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point, satellites in orbital rotation |
section plane section | (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid |
Platanaceae family Platanaceae plane-tree family | coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees |
plane tree sycamore platan | any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits |
London plane Platanus acerifolia | very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree |
American sycamore American plane buttonwood Platanus occidentalis | very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico |
oriental plane Platanus orientalis | large tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor |
rotation | (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin |