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Nutation vs Nugation - What's the difference?

nutation | nugation |

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

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
  • nugation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, obsolete) The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
  • * 1826 , Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon , p13
  • 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 ...

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