Nutates vs Mutates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between nutates and mutates

is that nutates is third-person singular of nutate while mutates is third-person singular of mutate.

(head)

(nutate)

(nutat)

To rock or sway involuntarily.

(engineering) To wobble, to make a circular rocking motion.

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(head)

(mutate)

(mutat)

To undergo mutation.

To cause mutation.