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.
The rota was 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.
In medieval music, a rota is a name for a type of round, specifically as practiced in England in the 13th and 14th centuries. The term is Latin for "wheel".
The Rota Club was 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 is a service club.
Rota is the feminine form of the Chilean term roto.