different between librate vs libration

English

Noun

librate (plural librates)

1. (obsolete) A piece of land having a value of one pound per year

Verb

librate (third-person singular simple present librates, present participle librating, simple past and past participle librated)

1. (intransitive) To oscillate (like the beam of a balance)
   • 1796, William Cliffton, The Group

     Their parts all librate on too nice a beam.

2. (transitive) To poise; to balance.

Related terms

• libration

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References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• altbier, betrail, tablier, triable, trilabe

Italian

Verb

librate

1. second-person plural present indicative of librarsi
2. second-person plural imperative of librarsi
3. feminine plural of librato

Anagrams

• blateri
• libertà
• ribalte
• tribale

Latin

Participle

l?br?te

1. vocative masculine singular of l?br?tus

References

• librate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Etymology

From Latin l?br?ti? (“a hurling, swinging”), from l?br? (“poise, cause to swing”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /la??b?e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

libration (countable and uncountable, plural librations)

1. The act of librating.
2. (astronomy) The apparent wobble or variation in the visible side of the Moon that permanently faces the Earth, allowing observers on Earth to see, over a period of time, slightly more than half of the lunar surface.
3. (by extension) A similar rotational or orbital characteristic of some other celestial body.
4. (dynamics) The oscillation of an angle about a stable equilibrium point.
5. (chemistry) A vibrational degree of freedom whereby a group of atoms partly rotates back and forth, similar to the Moon's motion.

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