ROTOGRAPH
Ro"to*graph, n. (Photography)
Defn: A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.
ROTOR
Ro"tor, n. (Elec.)
Defn: The rotating part of a generator or motor.
ROTTA
Rot"ta, n. (Mus.)
Defn: See Rota.
ROTTEN
Rot"ten, a. Etym: [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See
Rot.]
Defn: Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: (a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. Shak.
(b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of the rotten way." Knolles. Rotten borough. See under Borough. — Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to like uses.
Syn.
— Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt;
deceitful; treacherous.
— Rot"ten*ly, adv.
— Rot"ten*ness, n.