tidal locking

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.

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 Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Romanian: please add this translation if you can 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