English Explanatory Dictionary

reptation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A creeping movement.
  2. A creeping thermal motion of entangled linear polymers
  3. 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.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-reptation.wav

Word forms

reptation reptations

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p-der. Proto-Italic *rēpō Latin rēpō Latin rēptō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin rēptātiōlbor. English reptation Learned borrowing from Latin rēptātiō.

Related words

surreptitious

Derived words

repton
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