nutation

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

nutación

cabeceo

fototropismo

geotropismo

hidrotropismo

quimiotropismo

tropismo

nastia

cabezada

tigmotropismo

Sinónimos

chemotropism

geotropism

hydrotropism

nodding

phototropism

thigmotropism

nastic movement

tropisms

Traducciones

Nutation

nutation

nutazione

nutação

κλόνηση

üğrüm

Tropismus

Geotropismus

nutació

νεύση

nastische Bewegung

géotropisme

phototropisme

Thigmotropismus

Etimología (Inglés)

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