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Precession

noun

The motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone.

The act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony). Synonyms: precedence, precedency.

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precession of the equinoxes

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"Precession" Quotes from Famous Books

... class which once represented all that was sober and steady and trustworthy in Britain! Go into any smart billiard-room nowadays, or make a round of the various race meetings, and you will see something to make you sad. You see one vast precession of Rakes ...

— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman

... multiples of the earth's polar diameter, a metric system, including linear and liquid measures, and a system of weights based on a cubical measure of water of uniform temperature; which uniform temperature they took the utmost care to preserve. He shows further, that they were acquainted with the precession of the equinoxes, with the density of the earth, and with the earth's distance from the sun; or at least calculated it at what proves to be nearly a mean of our discordant calculations; and that they were acquainted with problems just beginning to attract ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

Words linked to "Precession" : precede, activity, motion, precession of the equinoxes