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Nutation vs Natation - What's the difference?

nutation | natation |

As nouns the difference between nutation and natation

is that nutation is a bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body while natation is the act or process of swimming.

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

    natation

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act or process of swimming

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