Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The act of nodding.
2. A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.
3. The motion of a flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.
4. Circumnutation.
Nutation
Encyclopedia Britannica
NUTATION. See Astronomy, vol. ii. pp. 794-5.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 665
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Oscillation Roget’s Thesaurus §314
N. oscillation, vibration, libration, motion of a pendulum, nutation, undulation, pulsation, pulse, alternation, coming and going, ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ups and down, fluctuation, vacillation, wave, vibratiuncle, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge, logan, loggan, rocking-stone, vibroscope
V. oscillate, vibrate, librate, alternate, undulate, wave, rock, swing, pulsate, beat, wag, waggle, nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy, tick, play, wamble, wabble, dangle, swag, fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake, quiver, quaver, shake, flicker, wriggle, roll, toss, pitch, flounder, stagger, totter, move up and down, bob up and down, pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go, vacillate, teeter, brandish, shake, flourish
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