Usually means: Tilt or rock on axis.
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  1. nutate: Merriam-Webster
  2. nutate: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. nutate: Wordnik
  5. nutate: Wiktionary
  6. nutate: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. nutate: Dictionary.com
  8. nutate: Rhymezone
  9. nutate: FreeDictionary.org
  10. nutate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. nutate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. nutate: Medical dictionary

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  1. Nutate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nutate)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To rock or sway involuntarily.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, engineering) To wobble; to make a circular rocking motion.

Similar:
rock, wobble, sway, titubate, undulate, waver, dodder, noddle, wibble, waive, more...

Opposite:
stabilize, immobilize, fix, steady

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Similar:
rock, wobble, sway, titubate, undulate, waver, dodder, noddle, wibble, waive, more...

Opposite:
stabilize, immobilize, fix, steady



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