NUTATION

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of nodding. So from the midmost the nutation spreads, Round and more round, o'er all the sea of heads. Pope.

2.
n.

A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.

3.
n.

The motion of a flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.

4.
n.

Circumnutation.


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