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  1. nutations: Merriam-Webster
  2. nutations: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nutations: Vocabulary.com
  4. nutations: Wiktionary
  5. nutations: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nutation)

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