nutation
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Definition of nutation
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)A bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body.
- (countable, uncountable)A nodding motion (of the head etc.).
- (countable, uncountable)Any of several irregularities in the precession of the equinoxes caused by varying torque applied to the Earth by the Sun and the Moon.
- (countable, uncountable)The circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot.
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Etymology
1610s, from Latin nūtātiō (“nodding”), from nūtō (“to nod”). Compare mutation.
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