synchronous rotation

synchronous rotation

English

Noun

synchronous rotation (plural synchronous rotations)

1. (astronomy) The situation in which an astronomical body takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its partner.

Translations

tidal locking

French: rotation synchrone f German: gebundene Rotation f Italian: rotazione sincrona f Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: bundet rotasjon m Polish: obrót synchroniczny m Portuguese: rotação sincronizada f, rotação síncrona f Russian: please add this translation if you can Romanian: please add this translation if you can Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: rotación sincrónica f Swedish: bunden rotation c

See also

• tidal locking