Thus in Figure 16 is shown a cube which has been rotated about one of its faces and changed from its initial position to the position it would occupy when the rotation had been completed or its final position attained.
The handle is, by means of a half cocoanut shell, pressed firmly down, and twisted between the palms, or rotated by means of a cord.
If the earth rotated on its axis in three hours, when fluid or pasty, it would be unstable, and begin to separate a portion of itself as a kind of bud, which might then get detached and gradually pushed away by the violent tidal action.
If so, there was a time when the moon behaved differently--when it rotated more quickly than it revolved, and exhibited to us its whole surface.
They slowly formed and changed, and by moving all together showed him that the sun rotatedabout once a month.
And at this era, too, the earth itself must have rotated a little faster, for it has been losing speed ever since.
On the appearance of the immortal work of Copernicus, in which it was taught that the earth rotated on its axis, and that the earth, like the other planets, revolved round the sun, orthodoxy stood aghast.
Nor did it escape his attention that the sun itself rotated on its axis in the same sense.
If, then, this stupendous sphere rotated once in twenty-four hours, the speed with which the movement of some of the stars must be executed would be so portentous as to seem well-nigh impossible.
He rotated the rising-plane, and now soared to 2,800 feet.
Then the forceps are rotated to bring the point of the tack away from the bronchial wall.
The patient's head must always be exactly in the middle line, not rotated to the right or left, nor bent over sidewise; and the entire head must be forward with extension at the occipitoatloid joint only.
At C is shown the pin carried into the stomach and about to be rotatedby withdrawal.
In the execution of this maneuver the pin is seized by the spring with a rotation forceps, and thus passed along with the esophagoscope into the stomach where it is rotated so that the spring is uppermost.
This mass of glass should now be rotated in the blowpipe flame until it is quite soft and on the point of running together.
The tube and glass-blower's knife should be held in the hand, and the tube rotated against the edge of the knife; this will not produce a deep cut, but is less likely to break the tube.
Considerable practice will be necessary before the two ends of the tube can be rotated at the same speed and without "wobbling," but this power must be acquired.
When the tube is in the flame it must be held just in front of the blue cone and rotated until the glass is soft enough to permit the ends to be drawn apart.
One of the earlier of these was the plate friction machine in which a large circular glass plate was rotated while a pad of some material was held against it.
An example is the action upon a compass needle which is rotated by a force which urges one end toward the north and by an equal force which urges the other end toward the south.
According to the nebular hypothesis the solar nebula from which the planetary system was formed, originally extended at least as far as the orbit of Neptune and rotated slowly in the direction in which the planets now revolve.
Presumably the planets and asteroids formed at one time a part of a central body which rotatedon its axis in the direction in which they now revolve about the sun.
In the following year Cassini saw a spot which he found to be in motion, and by following it attentively he inferred that the planet rotated on its axis in 9h.
Schroeter also announced that Mercury rotated on its axis in 24 hours 5 minutes.
Vance lifted it up, rotated it a half turn in his hand, and took a reserved sip.
The cockpit rotated upward, automatically shifting to compensate for the changing G-forces.
He looked up at the big screen and said, "Petra, project image from the nose camera, rotated to minus ninety.
He rotated and carefully pushed himself off the ceiling, repressing the instinct to kick like a scuba diver.
With his right hand he rotated a black knob on the heavy sidestick grip and turned up the oxygen feed to his mask, an old trick from fighter training school that sometimes postponed the "event" for a few milliseconds.
On takeoff the vehicle rotated very nicely into a lift- off attitude of six point five degrees.
The door eased inward, then rotatedto the side, opening onto the pressure bay.
She glared as she gulped the last of her drink, then carefully rotated to the window and adjusted her seat to full recline.
Finally, holding the hilt straight in front of him, he rotated the blade ninety degrees, then pulled his left hand back and grasped the mouth of the scabbard.
The to-and-fro action of the cutter-blade was produced by a connecting-rod working on a crank rotated by the wheels carrying the machine.
The nozzle itself can be rotated from below by rods and gearing, and the angle of the stream regulated by a rope.
The shaft is slowly rotated on a lathe, and tiny clouds of smoke arise as the tool nicks off pieces of metal to reduce the shaft to a circular shape.
It should be mentioned that drum A has incorporated with it on the outside a bevel-wheel (not shown) rotated by a smaller bevel on the end of the propeller shaft.
These valves open into the cylinder, upwards, downwards, or horizontally, as the case may be; being pushed in by cams projecting from a shaft rotated by the engine.
We will content ourselves with saying that the wax cylinder of the phonograph, or the ebonite disc of the gramophone, is generally rotated by clockwork concealed in the body of the machine.
When the fish is rotated round different axes there are compensating movements of the eyes and fins.
It was observed that if the fish were rotated in the plane of one of the canals, exactly the same movements of the eyes and fins occurred as were produced by experimental operation and stimulation of the ampulla of that canal.
Similarly, if a body is rotated round a vertical axis, we perceive only angular acceleration and not angular velocity.
A siren rotatedby a separate motor yields better results than when self-driven.
In the flashing or revolving light types the arrangement is generally similar, the lenses being revolved upon a mercury float which is rotated by the electric motor.
The trumpet is capable of being rotated through an angle as well as dipped below the horizon.
Occultations are produced by a screen or series of screens rotated round the light by the ascending current of heated air and gases from the lamp acting upon a horizontal fan.
Three, four or more faces or groups of reflectors are arranged around the lantern in which they revolve, and are carried upon a turn-table rotated by clockwork.
The carriage is rotated on rollers or ball bearings or carried upon a small mercury float.
Flashing-light apparatus are rotated by clockwork mechanism actuated by weights.
The perforations being cut at an angle, the disk was self-rotated by the oblique pressure of the air in escaping through the slots.
Cages were on one of five shelves of a movable tier of shelving, and were rotated randomly, from one shelf to another, each week.
The spindle can be rapidly rotated between the fingers for medium power adjustments while the larger milled head can be slowly moved when focussing high powers.
The trephine can be set in ordinary metal handles and rotated by hand, but a surgical engine of some kind is much preferable on the score of rapidity and safety to the animal.
Made in the form of an objective, the lenses are replaced by a diamond point, set slightly out of the centre, which can be rotated by means of a milled plate.
Further it can be completely rotated about its long axis.
Rotated hands in front of body, rolling them tips over tips very rapidly, fingers with thumbs nearly collected to a point--winding up the hook-line in a hurry.
The hand held up with the thumb near the face, and the palm directed toward the person of whom the inquiry is made; then rotated upon the wrist two or three times edgewise, to denote uncertainty.
With steam a drum is rotated over which a hoisting wire-rope is wound, to which the elevator car is attached.
In this the pistons consisted of two cog wheels, their leaves intermeshing, and rotated in an elliptical shaped chamber.
The breech had four chambers and was rotated by hand on an arbour parallel to the barrel.
From that date until 1800 followed attempts to make a cutting apparatus consisting of blades on a revolving cylinder rotated by the rotary motion of the wheels on which the machine was carried.
It consisted of a ball of sulphur rotated on an axis, and which was electrified by friction of the hand, the ball receiving negative electricity while the positive flowed through the person to the earth.
Centrally through the cylinder passes a hollow shaft B, which is rotated by the power pulley K.
Concentrated or thick mashes require that the stirrers be of massive construction, capable of being rapidly rotated in the liquid.
The main shaft C is rotated by a large bevel gear D, meshing with a small pinion E on the end of a driving shaft F, which is driven by a belt.
The rake or stirrers are then rotated and the meal run in slowly.
With a disk rotated at high speed you get a tremendous lift, whether it's slotted or cambered, as long as there's enough air to work on.
You could have a square hole in the center; then the disk launching device would have a square shaft, rotated by an engine or a motor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rotated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
