reptation

English

Noun

reptation (countable and uncountable, plural reptations)

  1. A creeping movement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (physics) A creeping thermal motion of entangled linear polymers
  3. (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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