Definitions
Rotating part of a machine, engine, or aircraft system.
Word origin
From an irregular clipping of rotator, originally in mathematics, coined by English mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford based on vector, see quotations. Doublet of rota and ruote.
Used in a sentence
“The following figure shows examples of the most versatile class of these oscillators. The first emulates the p10 shown above; the second has period 62 and a rotor of size 10.”
“In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the next generation after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Spinning blade assembly”5 letters
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