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For a Clear Terminology in the Polar Motion Investigations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

P. Melchior
P. Melchior*
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Bruxelles, BELGIUM

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The useless introduction of the new words “wobble” and “sway” has produced a flourishing rise in confusing terminology in most of the recent papers. These two words even if picturesque are fundamentally unprecise. They perhaps help to describe – in the English language – the nature of the movement but in no way correspond to the classical terminology of fundamental mechanics. They have apparently no convenient translation into the other usual languages.

Type
Session I
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 78: Nutation and the Earth's Rotation , 1980 , pp. 17 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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