Rabatment

Quick meaning: Rabatment is a noun meaning The rotation of a plane figure.

Meaning

The rotation of a plane figure.

Example Sentences

To be able to perform his constructions on a piece of paper Guidobaldo almost always applied a particular rabatment.

Her reconstruction was of the same type, except that the central blue arrow was now above the other two in I and beneath them in II (perfect rabatment, but no rotation).

For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d.

Word Forms

• rabatments

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rebatment, reptation, roll, pitch, reclination, gyrorotation.

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