reptation
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Noun[edit]
reptation (countable and uncountable, plural reptations)
- A creeping movement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (physics) A creeping thermal motion of entangled linear polymers
- (geometry) The motion of one plane figure around another, so that the longest diameter of one shall come into line with the shortest of the other.
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Noun[edit]
reptation f (plural reptations)
Further reading[edit]
- “reptation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.