NUTATION
\njuːtˈe͡ɪʃən], \njuːtˈeɪʃən], \n_j_uː_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of NUTATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
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Circumnutation.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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Circumnutation.
By Noah Webster.
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A nodding: (astr.) a periodical vibratory motion of the earth's axis: (bot.) the turning of flowers towards the sun.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Nodding. Also, a constant oscillation of the head, by which it moves involuntarily in one or more directions.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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