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
PRECESSION
Meaning of PRECESSION in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012