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Nutation is a rocking, swaying, or nodding motion in the axis of rotation of a largely axially symmetric object, such as a gyroscope or the Earth. It may also refer to:
- In biology:
- Nutation in plants, bending movements executed by some plant organs
- Sacrum nutation, see Sacrum #Articulations
- The same as precession in spacecraft dynamics
- In engineering, to nutate means exhibit a wobbling motion without rotation, similar to a swashplate
- Nutating motion in flow measurement
- Nutating motion of pumps
- swashplate engine
- nutating disc engine
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nutation.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Category: