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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A bobbing motion that accompanies the precession of a spinning rigid body.
2. isim A nodding motion (of the head etc.).
3. isim Any of several irregularities in the precession of the equinoxes caused by varying torque applied to the Earth by the Sun and the Moon.
4. isim The circular motion of the tip of a growing shoot.