nutation

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. (countable, uncountable) A bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body.
2. (countable, uncountable) A nodding motion (of the head etc.).
3. (countable, uncountable) Any of several irregularities in the precession of the equinoxes caused by varying torque applied to the Earth by the Sun and the Moon.
4. (countable, uncountable) The circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot.

Konzepte

Nutation

Phototropismus

Geotropismus

Tropismus

Chemotropismus

Thigmotropismus

Hydrotropismus

nastische Bewegung

Synonyme

chemotropism

geotropism

hydrotropism

nodding

phototropism

thigmotropism

nastic movement

tropisms

Übersetzungen

nutazione

nutation

nutación

nutação

κλόνηση

üğrüm

phototropisme

géotropisme

nutació

thigmotropisme

chemiotropismo

fototropismo

geotropismo

chimiotropisme

Etymologie (Englisch)

1610s, from Latin nūtātiō (“nodding”), from nūtō (“I nod”). Compare mutation.