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Rotor may refer to:
- Rotor (abstract), a rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump.
In engineering:
- Helicopter rotor, the rotary wing(s) of a rotorcraft such as a helicopter
- Rotor (electric), the non-stationary part of an alternator or electric motor, operating with a stationary element called the stator.
- ROTOR, a former radar project in the UK following the Second World War
- Rotor (turbine), the rotor of a turbine powered by fluid pressure
- Rotor (crank), a variable-angle bicycle crank
- Rotor (brake), the disc of a disc brake, in U.S. terminology
- Rotor (distributor), a component of the ignition system of an internal combustion engine
- Rotor (engine), the rotary piston in a rotary combustion engine
- Rotor (antenna), an electric motor that rotates an antenna to the direction of transmission or reception
In computing:
- Rotor machine, the rotating wheels used in certain cipher machines, such as the German Enigma machine
- Rotor (software project), the former code name for Microsoft's shared source implementation of its Common Language Infrastructure
In medicine:
- Rotor syndrome, a rare liver disorder
In music:
- Rotor (band), a German progressive stoner rock band
- Rotor (label), a Swedish record label publishing, among other things, music for silent films
In biology and chemistry:
- The rotating part of a centrifuge, which also holds the samples
In other fields:
- SC Rotor Volgograd, a Russian football club
- Rotor (Sonic the Hedgehog), a fictional character from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe
- Rotor (ride), the trade name for an amusement ride
- Rotor (meteorology), a turbulent horizontal vortex that forms in the trough of lee waves
- Rotor (mathematics), an n-blade object in geometric algebra, which rotates another n-blade object about a fixed or translated point
- Curl (mathematics), known as rotor in some countries, a vector operator that shows a vector field's rate of rotation
- Rotor, a space colony in Isaac Asimov's book Nemesis
- R.O.T.O.R., a 1989 science fiction/action movie
- Vibrator (sex toy), a Japanese usage of similar sounds in English. Also spelt as rotar.
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