¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Librational
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Librational
Literary usage of Librational
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society by American Mathematical Society (1913)
"libration, one of them of unusual magnitude, among the inner satellites of Saturn;
so far only the most important librational terms in the longitudes of ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... as in the majority of molecules containing (ir-C5H5)M groups, there is
considerable librational motion and/or rotational disorder in the C5H5 ring.1' ..."
3. The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-century by Owen Gingerich, Robert S. Westman (1988)
"In this arrangement, the librational circlet that controls the size of Mercury's
circle is the lower one at A. The mean anomaly is ..."
4. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1883)
"Nothing in Nature is more beautiful than the wondrous librational process by
which that is accomplished. Near the centre of the physical brain is the ..."
5. Borderland Studies: Miscellaneous Addresses and Essays Pertaining to by George Milbry Gould (1896)
"... than with other organs, goes without saying, and especially since its function
is mainly equi- librational, directional, mirror-like, ..."