Usually means: Snake-like movement through narrow spaces.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. reptation: Collins English Dictionary
  2. reptation: Wordnik
  3. reptation: Wiktionary
  4. Reptation, reptation: Dictionary.com
  5. Reptation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Reptation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. reptation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Reptation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. reptation: Free Dictionary
  10. reptation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Reptation: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reptation)

noun:  A creeping movement.
noun:  (physics) A creeping thermal motion of entangled linear polymers
noun:  (geometry) The motion of one plane figure around another, so that the longest diameter of one shall come into line with the shortest of the other.

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