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Chandler wobble

a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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