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Borrowed from Latin nūtātiōnem (“nodding, swaying”).
- IPA(key): /nu.tatˈt͡sjo.ne/
- Rhymes: -one
- Hyphenation: nu‧ta‧zió‧ne
nutazione f (plural nutazioni)
- nutation, particularly:
- (physics) a bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body
- (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
- (botany) the circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot
