Nutation vs Nugation - What's the difference?
nutation | nugation |
(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
(rare, obsolete) The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
* 1826 , Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon , p13
As nouns the difference between nutation and nugation
is that nutation is (physics) a bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body while nugation is (rare|obsolete) the act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential).nutation
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(wikipedia nutation)Noun
(en noun)nugation
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Noun
(en noun)- As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation : for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction ...