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polar motion comparison table |
Subject | is a kind of | has definition |
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axis motion | motion | the motion of the axis of a system |
polar motion | axis motion | The irregularly varying motion of the Earth's pole of rotation with respect to the Earth's crust. (See celestial ephemeris pole.) |
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