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Lutation vs Nutation - What's the difference?

lutation | nutation |

As nouns the difference between lutation and nutation

is that lutation is the act or method of luting vessels while nutation is a bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body.

lutation

English

Noun

  • The act or method of luting vessels.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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