Reptation

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounA creeping movement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2.NounA creeping thermal motion of entangled linear polymers

3.NounThe 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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