rotating villain

In American democracy, when the majority party has enough votes to pass populist legislation, party leaders designate a scapegoat who will refuse to vote with the party thereby killing the legislation. The opposition is otherwise inexplicable and typically comes from someone who is safe or not up for re-election. This allows for maximum diffusion of responsibility.

WTF??? Senator Lieberman now opposes the same health care compromise he himself suggested. Just when everyone thought Democrats had enough votes to get this done. Guess they made Lieberman the rotating villain...

by brmull April 4, 2011

Rotational Velocidensity

Rotational velocidensity affects all audio files encoded with lossy compression. These include mp3, aac, and ogg.

The most notable effect of rotational velocidensity is the loss of bitrate in files. A lossy audio file will lose an average of 12kbps a year. But, this can vary greatly depending on the type of storage media used.

Examples:

SATA HDD: ~12kbps
IDE HDD: ~15kbps
SCSI HDD: ~7kbps
DVD: ~16kbps
CD-R/RW: >21kbps

This can be overcome by compressing audio using lossless formats such as FLAC, APE, or TTA. These formats are designed to never lose quality over time, and will sound the same right now as they will in 10 years.

Josh found some old MP3s he used to listen to in high school. But was disappointed when they had degraded from 256kbps down to 64kbps due to Rotational Velocidensity.

by muza November 28, 2011

Rotating

The act of being so high on an illicit substance to the point where you can't help but spin your head around.

"Damn, Finlay took so much MDMA last night, he was rotating"

by NotKrios February 25, 2021

rotating rust

A dysphemism for a hard disk drive, which historically consisted of a rotating platter of iron oxide (modern hard drives may use other materials).

Rotating rust has much higher latency than SSDs.

by twixsmoker October 20, 2016

rotating caps

This is seen mainly in Xbox gamertags. People will make a gamertag such as xXxLeGiTsNiPeRxXx, which has rotating caps. This is basically when there is a word or phrase that alternates between lowercase and uppercase letters.

Jeff: Hey add me on Xbox Live
John: Alright, what's your gamertag?
Jeff: xXxLeGiTsNiPeZxXx
John: ... are you serious...
Jeff: What?
John: You have rotating caps in your gamertag...
Jeff: 1v1 me!

by ObamacareIsAnOxymoron January 5, 2014

Rotating Hamster Job

A procedure designed to administer oral sex while having the penis rotate in one's mouth. This is done by tying the target to a giant hamster wheel with each limb distributed around the wheel. The one administering the RHJ will then rotate the hamster wheel by running inside of it while performing oral sex on the target.

I'm still dizzy from that Rotating Hamster Job.

by C.O.M.P.'s 2008 January 30, 2008

rotating stock

The act of eating while defecating, most likely on a toilet.

"Was Bill done with his food?"
"No, he took it into the bathroom. He's rotating stock."

by PoopMotivation September 7, 2014