Meaning of NUTATION in English

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Meaning of NUTATION in English

• 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.

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