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LIBRATION

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• LIBRATION (noun)
The noun LIBRATION has 1 sense:

1. (astronomy) a real or apparent slow oscillation of a moon or satellite

Familiarity information: LIBRATION used as a noun is very rare.

• LIBRATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(astronomy) a real or apparent slow oscillation of a moon or satellite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

the libration of the moon

Hypernyms ("libration" is a kind of...):

variation ((astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon))

oscillation (the process of oscillating between states)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

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