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Original entry ↗A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump. · In a disc brake, the metal disc attached to the wheel hub. · The wing of a helicopter or other rotary wing aircraft (e.g., heli-type drone). · A type of powerful horizontal-axis atmospheric vortex generated by the interaction of strong winds with mountainous terrain.
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.
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