English-Finnish translations for precession

• prekessio
• etusija
  olla etusijalla

Definition of precession

• Precedence
• The wobbling motion of the axis of a spinning body when there is an external force acting on the axis
• Any of several slow changes in an astronomical body's rotational or orbital parameters

Examples

• 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.

Related words

• precess
• Larmor precession
• lunisolar precession