Meanings of nutation in English

He compares the movement with the nutation of the higher plants.

Sunflower turns to the sun by nutation, not by gyration

The mass of the moon comes out much greater by our theory than nutation gives.

This peculiar manner of growth is called by Wiesner "undulatory nutation."

If, then, a part of the mass be latent, nutation will give too small a value.

That given by nutation depends on gravity.

It is on these points-thenature of revolving nutation and the mechanism of twining-thatmodern physiologists differ from Darwin.

He resolved to measure anew with his own eye and with his own hand the constants of aberration and of nutation.

During this period, Bradley, more fortunate on the other side of the Channel, immortalized himself by the discovery of aberration and nutation.

Why did he not continue in the same spot, except for the slow change caused by the nutation or nodding of Venus?

The oscillation of the earth's axis may arise in two distinct ways; distinguished as ''nutation of the axis'' and ''variation of latitude.''

And one of them is, that the precession of the dinner-plates, and the nutation of the glasses, do not promote the music of the spheres.

This movement has been called by Sachs "revolving nutation;" but we have found it much more convenient to use the terms circumnutation and circumnutate.

On Feb. 1 my MS. on Precession, Solar Inequality, and Nutation, was made complete.

Mathematical Tracts on Physical Astronomy, the Figure of the Earth, Precession and Nutation, and The Calculus of Variations.

Nutation, the only form of oscillation imagined by Bradley, postulates that while the earth's axis is fixed with respect to the earth, i.e.