tidal locking

See also: tidal lock

English

Noun

tidal locking (uncountable)

1. (astronomy) The locking of the rotation of a satellite (moon or planet) to its orbit, such that one side always faces the body around which it is orbiting.

   Hypernym: locking

   Hyponym: mutual tidal locking

Derived terms

• tidally locked

Translations

locking

Arabic: حَرَكَة تَزَامُنِيَّة (ḥaraka tazāmuniyya) Chinese: Mandarin: 潮汐鎖定 / 潮汐锁定 (cháoxī suǒdìng) Czech: please add this translation if you can Finnish: vuorovesilukkiutuminen (fi) French: verrouillage gravitationnel (fr) m Icelandic: bundin snúningshreyfing Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Polish: obrót synchroniczny m, rotacja synchroniczna f Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: прили́вный захва́т (ru) m (prilívnyj zaxvát) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: acoplamiento de marea Turkish: eşzamanlı dönüş Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• synchronous rotation

Further reading

• tidal locking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia