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LIBRATION (Lat. libra, a balance)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 578 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LIBRATION (Lat. libra, a balance)

LIBRATION (See also:
LAT
Lat. See also:
LIBRA (" THE BALANCE ")
libra, a See also:
BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)
balance) , a slow oscillation, as of a See also:

BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

balance; in See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy especially the seeming oscillation of the See also:

moon around her See also:

AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

axis, by which portions of her See also:

SURFACE

surface near the edge of the disk are alternately brought into sight and swung out of sight .

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