(Britain) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

(music) A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.

plural of rota

(Catholicism) A branch of the papal Curia which serves as an appellate court in ecclesiastical cases, including cases of marriage nullity.

(geography) An island in the Northern Mariana Islands.

plural of Rota

(chemistry, of a compound) [α]_D, the angle of rotation of the plane of polarization of a ray of monochromatic light that passes through 10cm of the substance in solution at a concentration of 1 gram per millilitre

(chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis. / A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.

(intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve. / (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns. / (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.

Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.