ROTATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rotated mean? 

• ROTATED (adjective)
  The adjective ROTATED has 1 sense:

1. turned in a circle around an axis

  Familiarity information: ROTATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROTATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turned in a circle around an axis

Synonyms:

revolved; rotated

Similar:

turned (moved around an axis or center)

 Context examples 

North on Rhea is up and rotated 36 degrees to the right.

(Regarding Rhea, NASA)

A congenital abnormality in which the intestine is abnormally rotated (twisted).

(Intestinal Malrotation, NCI Thesaurus)

The cylinder was then rotated in a nitrogen environment similar to Titan.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

Then, a special, wide needle is pushed into the bone and rotated to remove a sample of bone with the bone marrow inside it.

(Bone marrow biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

The syringe is then removed and the needle is rotated to remove a sample of the bone and the bone marrow.

(Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

It employs a large motor-driven apparatus with a long arm, at the end of which human and animal subjects, biological specimens, or equipment can be revolved and rotated at various speeds to study gravitational effects.

(Centrifugation, NCI Thesaurus)

The larvae were also tested in the MagLab, where the magnetic field to which they were exposed was rotated such that the North-South and East-West were shifted by 90 degrees for each of the larvae.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)

The system is integrated into a pathologist's microscope so that the cells are microdissected, transferred to the cap, and then rotated into a vial by a rotating arm in a hands-off operation. (from Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP) Update)

(Laser Capture Microdissection, NCI Thesaurus)