Vibration vs Libration - What's the difference?
vibration | libration |
The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
(physics) Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
A single complete vibrating motion.
(slang) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere; vibes.
The act of librating.
(astronomy) The apparent wobble or variation in the visible side of the Moon that permanently faces the Earth, allowing observers on Earth to see, over a period of time, slightly more than half of the lunar surface.
(by extension) A similar rotational or orbital characteristic of some other celestial body.