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What is the noun for nutations?

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nutation
  1. (physics) a bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body
  2. a nodding motion (of the head etc.)
  3. (astronomy) 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. (botany) the circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot
  5. Examples:
    1. “There is a small periodic effect called nutation superimposed on precession caused by the motion of the perihelion of the Moon.”
      “Even the tides and precession of the equinoxes and Bradley's nutation were accounted for and explained.”
      “If, then, a part of the mass be latent, nutation will give too small a value.”
nutations
  1. plural of nutation
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