(intransitive) To rock or sway involuntarily. / (intransitive, engineering) To wobble; to make a circular rocking motion.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nutate

simple past tense and past participle of nutate

(physics) A bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body. / A nodding motion (of the head etc.).

plural of nutation

plural of nutator

A mechanical or electronic device for gyrating a feedhorn, dipole, or radar about the axis of the reflector without changing its polarization.

present participle of nutate

Related to nutation