Librate

Quick meaning: Librate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To oscillate (like the beam of a balance).

Meaning

(intransitive) To oscillate (like the beam of a balance).

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, figuratively) To waver or deliberate between two opposing thoughts or choices.
2. (intransitive) To be poised; to balance oneself.
3. (now historical) A piece of land having a value of one pound per year.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To place in a balance; to weigh.

Example Sentences

Their parts all librate on too nice a beam.

Her playful Sea-horse […] His watery way with waving volutes wins, / Or listening librates on unmoving fins.

But she winds about him coil after coil of her glittering rhetoric, in which reason holds its own as it librates with specious feeling.

The currently observed orbital resonances at the 2:1 mean motion commensurabilities involving Io-Europa and Europa-Ganymede are such that the resonance variables #92;theta#95;1#61;#92;lambda#95;1-2#92;lambda#95;2#43;#92;omega#95;1 and #92;theta#95;3#61;#92;lambda#95;2-2#92;lambda#95;3#43;#92;omega#95;2 librate about 0° and #92;theta#95;2#61;#92;lambda#95;1-2#92;lambda#95;2#43;#92;omega#95;2 librates about 180°, all with small amplitude.

Word Forms

• librates
• librating
• librated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include poundage, landgable, lawing, gersum, landgafol, geld.

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