precession

Meaning of precession

noun
  1. Precedence.
    But as it will not do to talk entirely at random, as Montaigne does, and Ralph Waldo Emerson tries to do, we must take up some little thread or threads. and string our thoughts thereupon, keeping up also a relation among them of precession and succession.
  2. The wobbling motion of the axis of a spinning body when there is an external force acting on the axis.
  3. The slow gyration of the earth's axis around the pole of the ecliptic, caused mainly by the gravitational torque of the sun and moon.
  4. Any of several slow changes in an astronomical body's rotational or orbital parameters.

Information about precession

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of precession is: precessions.
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Hyphenation of precession

pre-ces-sion

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • precession is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

precession synonyms

Meaning precedence:

precedence, precedency

Anagrams of precession

encopresis, necropsies

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