Usually means: Wobbling motion of Earth's axis.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word nutation:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. nutation: Merriam-Webster
  2. nutation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nutation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nutation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nutation: Vocabulary.com
  6. nutation: Wordnik
  7. nutation: Wiktionary
  8. nutation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nutation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. nutation: Dictionary.com
  11. Nutation (botany), Nutation (engineering), Nutation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Nutation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. nutation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. nutation: Rhymezone
  15. nutation: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  16. Nutation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. nutation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. nutation: FreeDictionary.org
  19. nutation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. nutation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. nutation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nutation (astronomy and mechanics), nutation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Nutation (astronomy and mechanics), nutation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nutation: A Word A Day
  2. nutation: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Nutation: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Nutation: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See nutational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nutation)

noun:  (physics) A bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body.
noun:  A nodding motion (of the head etc.).
noun:  (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.
noun:  (botany) The circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot.

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