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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: nutation
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Definition: a small periodic motion of a rotating body undergoing precession which is superimposed on the precession and causes the axis of rotation of the body to oscillate about the cone of precession

NOTE – Nutation generally has a period which is shorter than that of the precession.


Publication date:1994-08
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