English-Finnish translations for antecedence

Definition of antecedence

  • The relationship of preceding something in time or order
  • That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry
  • The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another
  • The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent#Noun|antecedent
  • A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them
  • An apparent motion of a planet toward the west.John Harris, ''Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences,'London: Dan. Brown ''et al.,'2nd ed., 1708: “The Astronomers say, a Planet is in ''Antecedence,'when it appears to move contrary to the usual Course or Order of the Signs of the ''Zodiack,'as when it moves from ''Taurus'towards ''Aries,'&c. but if it go from ''Aries'to ''Taurus,'and thence to ''Gemini,'&c. they say it goes ''in Consequence''.”[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435067908665&view=1up&seq=66&size=150]

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