PRECESSION


Meaning of PRECESSION in English

noun Etymology: New Latin praecession-, praecessio, from Medieval Latin, act of preceding, from Latin praecedere to precede Date: 1879 a comparatively slow gyration of the rotation axis of a spinning body about another line intersecting it so as to describe a cone, ~al adjective

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