Definition of libration

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Libration (n.) The act or state of librating.

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Delibration :: Delibration (n.) The act of stripping off the bark.
Reason :: Reason (v. t.) To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon..
Equilibration :: Equilibration (n.) The process by which animal and vegetable organisms preserve a physiological balance.
Antilibration :: Antilibration (n.) A balancing; equipoise.
Libration Point :: Libration point (n.) any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body..
Evection :: Evection () The libration of the moon.
Calibration :: Calibration (n.) The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument..
Libration :: Libration (n.) A real or apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest..
Trepidation :: Trepidation (n.) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars..
Consideration :: Consideration (n.) The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession..
Libration :: Libration (n.) The act or state of librating.
Equilibration :: Equilibration (n.) Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise..
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