Crossword-Solution: NUTATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nutation | n. | The act of nodding. |
| Nutation | 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. |
| Nutation | 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. |
| Nutation | n. | Circumnutation. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “NUTATION”
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| SPIRAL growth movement of a stem (bot.) | 1 answer |
| periodic variation in the precession of the earth's axis | 1 answer |
| spiral growth movement | 1 answer |
| Oscillation? | 16 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with NUTATION (5)
Another finds that the phenomena of precession and nutation require that the earth, if not entirely solid, must at least have a shell not less than eight hundred to a thousand miles in thickness.
The movement is, in fact, a continuous self-bowing of the whole shoot, successively directed to all points of the compass; and has been well designated by Sachs as a revolving nutation.
These movements consist of revolving nutation, the bending to and from the light, and in opposition to gravity, those caused by a touch, and spiral contraction.
Also a kind of low cart, with a seat before it for the driver, used in and about Dublin, in the manner of a hackney coach: the fare is just half that of a coach, for the same distance; so that for sixpence one may have a set down, as it is called, of a mile and half, and frequently a tumble down into the bargain: it is called a noddy from the nutation of its head.
This movement has been called by Sachs “revolving nutation;” but we have found it much more convenient to use the terms circumnutation and circumnutate.