untilt
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]untilt (third-person singular simple present untilts, present participle untilting, simple past and past participle untilted)
- (transitive) To restore to its original orientation, from a tilted orientation.
- 1982, Howard S. Goldberg, Michael D. Scadron, Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology, page 106:
- This giveaway allows astronomers to "untilt" the orbit and calculate its true dimensions.