8 sentences with 'rotation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rotation and other words derived from it.
• « Rudolf Von Laban proposed a system of body rotation that helped dancers to grasp the rhythmic aspects of movement, and Mary Wigman, a disciple of Dalcroze and Von Laban, gave life to a simple system of movements. »
• « Crop rotation is the process of planting a different type of crop in one field each year, and then "rotating" to the next field in the following year. »
• « Until that time, European farmers tended to employ two-field crop rotation, planting one field while leaving another "fallow" to recover its fertility for the following year. This system was sustainable, but limited the number of crops that could be grown. »
• « From around 1000 CE, farmers became more systematic in their use of the three-field crop rotation: working with three linked fields, they would plant one with wheat, another with legumes (peas, beans, lentils) or barley, and leave one fallow, allowing animals to graze on their grasses and last season's leftover stalks, with their manure helping to fertilise the soil. »
• « The agricultural revolution of the early Middle Ages had been brought about by technology (heavier ploughs, new harnesses, crop rotation, etc.). »
• « Jupiter rotates much faster than the Earth and that rotation causes the clouds to elongate parallel to the planet's equator. »
• « Venus' slow rotation has achieved the impossible: a day lasts longer than a year: 5,832 hours, 243 Earth days. »