1. rotates together with something else; moves in a circular or orbital path at the same rate and direction as another object
Usage: technical; astronomy; physics

Examples

• The Moon corotates with Earth, always showing the same face to our planet.
• In this binary star system, both stars corotate around their common center of mass.
• The satellite corotates with its parent planet, maintaining a fixed orientation.
• Engineers designed the mechanism so that the two gears corotate at identical speeds.
• The exoplanet corotates with its star due to tidal locking over millions of years.