How To Use Nutation In A Sentence
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In addition to the precession and nutation of the Earth's rotational axis, the Earth itself undergoes a wobble such that the crust wanders about the rotational axis with a combination of two periods and amplitudes.
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The principal causes of the slight irregular motion known as nutation are the Sun and Moon as they continually change location relative to one another.
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If so, the facts on circumnutation must have been communicated to Darwin some years before their publication in the "Jenaische Zeitschrift.")
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“I believe that if we introduce a more tightly focused nutation cycle in our deflector shields, and channel power to the shield generators directly from the warp engines, we can produce sufficient energy for the shields to protect against contamination of the dilithium crystals.”
Creative Couplings
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The phenomenon, however, subsequently provided important evidence for Newton's theory of gravity when d'Alembert in 1749 carried out a successful derivation based on rigid body motion and a correct value of the Moon's force derived from the then recently discovered phenomenon of the nutation of the Earth.
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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Amusingly the effect isn't the impressive-sounding nutation at all as a matter of definition, so no amount of calculation saves him from this boo-boo, but rather just plain polar motion.
Rabett Run
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Being unable to contain her excitement at the prospect of being walked, the dog suffers fits of sternutation whenever she sees her leash.
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And all three forget their sectional differences in a delightful concert of sternutation.
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In addition to this steady decrease, there are also much smaller short term (18.6 years) variations, that is also affected by Sun's gravitation in its depleting angle relative to Earth's, known as nutation.
Obama near climate change accord with China, others
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If, however, the spheres were somewhat flattened at the poles, and the axes inclined to each other, then the pull of one mass on the other would cause the polar axes to keep up a constant movement which is called nutation, or nodding.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
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The changes of position of leaves and of climbing plants, and the sleep of leaves are all brought under this great principle of circumnutation.
Life of Charles Darwin
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With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
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The present letter is interesting in referring to F.itz Muller's observations on the "revolving nutation," or circumnutation of Alisma macrophylla and Linum usitatissimum, the latter fact having been discovered by F. Muller's daughter Rosa.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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Note that the observed nutation a lunar effect is much larger than the polar motion from the earthquake, so a question he would have to answer is why there is no apparent cycle in temperature from the former.
Rabett Run
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This phenomenon, known as "nutation," was discovered by the beautiful telescopic researches of Bradley, in 1747.
The Story of the Heavens
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This I proved to be the case; and I was further led to a rather wide generalisation, viz. that the great and important classes of movements, excited by light, the attraction of gravity, etc., are all modified forms of the fundamental movement of circumnutation.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
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And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind?
Warning Against Searching for Monsters to Destroy
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I hope that you will not have upset my fundamental notion that various classes of movement result from the modification of a universally present movement of circumnutation.
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Bessel's work in determining the constants of precession, nutation and aberration won him further honours, such as a prize from the Berlin Academy in 1815.
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This was probably the earliest observation on the circumnutation of a non-climbing plant, and Muller, in a paper dated 1868, and published in
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There is a small periodic effect called nutation superimposed on precession caused by the motion of the perihelion of the Moon.
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According to mythology, the first sign of life Prometheus's artificial man gave was by sternutation.