Associations to the word «Nutation»

Wiktionary

NUTATION, noun. (physics) a bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body
NUTATION, noun. A nodding motion (of the head etc.)
NUTATION, noun. (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
NUTATION, noun. (botany) the circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot

Dictionary definition

NUTATION, noun. Uncontrolled nodding.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King