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Nutation vs Nunation - What's the difference?

nutation | nunation |

As nouns the difference between nutation and nunation

is that nutation is (physics) a bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body while nunation is (grammar) a suffix ("-n") signifying a lack of syntactical definiteness of the noun or adjective in standard it is written as a diacritic over the final letter.

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
  • nunation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) A suffix ("-n") signifying a lack of syntactical definiteness of the noun or adjective in standard . It is written as a diacritic over the final letter.
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  • References

    *Abboud, Peter F., Ernest N. McCarus, et al.'' (1983): ''Elementary Modern Standard Arabic 1: Pronunciation and Writing; Lessons 1-30 , Cambridge University Press, p. 110-1. ISBN 0-521-27295-5. *