Librate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: librateLibration
The act or state of librating...
Libration point
any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other as the Earth moon system where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal and in opposite directions A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body...
Librate
To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium hence to be poised...
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