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polar motion comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
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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