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nutation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

1610s, from Latin nūtātiō (“nodding”), from nūtō (“to nod”). Compare mutation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body.
2. (countable, uncountable) A nodding motion (of the head etc.).
3. (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.
4. (countable, uncountable) The circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot.

Forms

Deriveds

revolving nutation · counternutation · circumnutation · nutational · nutate

Translations (27)

ar تَرَنُّح (astronomical term) · fr nutation (astronomical term) · ar تَرَنُّح (physics term) · pt nutação (head nodding) · ga nútaíocht (physics term) · de Nutation (physics term) · ar إِنْغَاض (head nodding) · pt nutação (astronomical term) · vi chương động (astronomical term) · bg кимане (head nodding) · es nutación (astronomical term) · ga nútaíocht (astronomical term) · pt nutação (physics term) · el κλόνηση (physics term) · ru нута́ция (physics term) · kk нутация (astronomical term) · cmn 章動 /章动 (astronomical term) · ja 章動 (physics term) · ga nútú (astronomical term) · ru кива́ние (head nodding) · el κλόνηση (astronomical term) · de Nutation (astronomical term) · es nutación (physics term) · ja 章動 (astronomical term) · ga nútú (physics term) · kk нутация (physics term) · cmn 章動 /章动 (physics term)