Rotation

 

"Rotation" means turning around a center:

The distance from the center to any point on the shape stays the same.

Every point makes a circle around the center.

 

 

  Here a triangle is rotated around
the point marked with a "+"

 

Try It Yourself

You can try rotating objects (point-by-point) by any angle, around any center point here:

 

(Try and follow what happens.)

 

 

 

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