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Rota may refer to:

• Rota is a Latin word, meaning wheel.
• Rota can also be a wheel used for measuring distances along roads and railway lines. These wheel often come with a mechanical counter to simplifies the task of counting the number of revolutions, or better still, the number of yards or metres.
• Rota is the feminine form of the Chilean term roto.
• Róta, a Valkyrie in Norse mythology, who chose those who were about to die on the battle-field.
• Rota (architecture), a cylinder, open on one side, that was built inside a wall of a monastery; it was used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy, being their only communication with the world.
• Rota (formation), a military unit in old-time Poland.
• Rota (music), a name for a type of round, specifically as practiced in England in the 13th and 14th centuries. The term is Latin for "wheel".
• Rota (schedule) or rosta is a table that shows what times certain things are going to happen and normally is referred to staffs shift times
• Rota (The oath), a poem and song written by Maria Konopnicka.
• Rota (volcano), a volcano in Nicaragua.
• Rota Club, a political club in circa 1702 in London. Its members proposed radical political reform, and the club is mentioned as an enemy of the state in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub.
• Rotary International, a service club.
• Sacra Rota, a tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Rota (papal signature), a sign which makes up part of the pope's signature

Places

• Rota (island), the 4th most populated island of the Marianas archipelago.
• Rota, Spain, is a town in Spain.
• Rota (volcano), volcano in Nicaragua

People

• Gian-Carlo Rota, a 20th-century Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher.
• Nino Rota, a 20th-century Italian composer.
• Claudio Rota, a 20th-century Italian-born scientist.

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