User:Fatninjawalrus

Tidal locking definition, if understood correctly, in potentially more user friendly forms:

Tidal locking is a term used to describe when an astronomical body's rotation rate during the course of a complete orbit does not change. That is to say, the rate of rotation is neither accelerating nor decelerating, but remains constant. (Compare this to Earth, where the rotation rate slows by 1.7ms every century)