noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crop rotation (= the practice of rotating crops )
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Crop rotation helps build up soil fertility.
crop rotation
the Earth’s rotation
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Has the Earth’s rotation always been the same?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
axial
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Jupiter is therefore appreciably flattened, though this is not surprising in view of its rapid axial rotation .
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Therefore their period should be the axial rotation period of the Jovian interior.
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The slow, retrograde axial rotation of Venus is a puzzle to which I shall return in section 4.2.
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This is because of the rapid axial rotation of Jupiter which yields a powerful Coriolis effect.
■ NOUN
crop
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To these ends, longer and new crop rotations can be introduced.
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For example, crop rotation , hand weeding and hoeing.
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What crop rotation will suit the farm?
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Organic manures as nutrient sources-how best to make the most of organic manures and slurry in arable crop rotations .
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Synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are banned and soil fertility and pest control is achieved through crop rotation and mixed farming systems.
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Whilst crop rotations are being established and fertility built up, it will probably be necessary to buy in some feeding-stuffs.
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Such careful spraying can go hand in hand with long-established techniques such as crop rotation , and planting resistant varieties.
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Many farmers are rediscovering the largely abandoned practices of crop rotation and manure spreading.
job
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Restructuring work routine may also involve job rotation , variation of tasks, and regular breaks from high-risk activities.
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The students also complained about the quality of the job rotations , which did not offer enough chances for hands-on learning.
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Instead, management's response to the de-skilling effects of the new technology was to introduce a system of job rotation .
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We need to do more cross-training and job rotation .
period
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Therefore their period should be the axial rotation period of the Jovian interior.
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The measured brightness variations over the rotation period are called the light curve of the asteroid.
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The data are plotted in 27-day strips, to highlight those disturbances that recur with the solar rotation period .
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We therefore would not even be able to determine its rotation period .
rate
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The plot of rotation rates in Fig. 1 a shows the residuals relative to this normal slowdown.
■ VERB
start
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If the starting rotation has five right-handers, there likely will be three left-handers in the bullpen.
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Carlos Reyes, working to earn a spot in the starting rotation , has one of the better change-ups in the league.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It takes 243 Earth days for Venus to complete one rotation .
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Robinson's first rotation at the hospital was in the emergency room.
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the rotation of the Earth
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We need to do more cross-training and job rotation .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A broken jaw to Javier Mejia created an opening in the rotation .
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Crop rotations and equipment could not be exploited in some areas until enclosure removed the remaining open fields and increased farm size.
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It is emphasized here that there is no rotation in a frame in free fall.
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Still, Leyland left him out of the postseason rotation because there was nobody else to work right-handed long relief.
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The Earth's rotation adds to the confusion.
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The measured brightness variations over the rotation period are called the light curve of the asteroid.