conditionally periodic motion
conditionally periodic motion
[kən′dish·ən·əl·ē ‚pir·ē¦ad·ik ‚mō·shən] (mechanics)
Motion of a system in which each of the coordinates undergoes simple periodic motion, but the associated frequencies are not all rational fractions of each other so that the complete motion is not simply periodic.
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