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Circumnutation vs Nutation - What's the difference?

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Nutation is a related term of circumnutation.



In botany terms the difference between circumnutation and nutation

is that circumnutation is the successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants while nutation is the circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot.

circumnutation

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

  • (botany) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

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    nutation

    English

    (wikipedia nutation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) a bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body
  • a nodding motion (of the head etc.)
  • (astronomy) any of several irregularities in the precession of the equinoxes caused by varying torque applied to the Earth by the Sun and the Moon
  • (botany) the circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot

    • Related terms

    * circumnutation * counternutation * nutate