nutation

(Inglese)

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.

Etimologia (Inglese)

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

Concetti

nutazione

fototropismo

geotropismo

idrotropismo

nastìa

tigmotropismo

chemiotropismo

tropismi

sinonimi

chemotropism

geotropism

hydrotropism

nodding

phototropism

thigmotropism

nastic movement

tropisms

Traduzioni

nutation

Nutation

nutación

nutação

κλόνηση

nutacja

üğrüm

Tropismus

Geotropismus

nutació

νεύση

nastische Bewegung

géotropisme

phototropisme

Thigmotropismus