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nutation - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'nutation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Nutation [ n.]
- The act of nodding.
- 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.
- 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.
- Circumnutation.