To spin, turn, or revolve.
He rotated in his chair to face me.
To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
Borrowed from Latin rotātus, perfect passive participle of rotō (“revolve”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from rota (“wheel”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
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