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precessions

n. (plural of precession English)

Usage examples of "precessions".

She flowed across ground, fountained upward again, landed to pirouette on a toe, a top that gyrated on and on and on, while it swung in ever wider precessions until she was a wheel, which abruptly became an arrow and at once the catavale which dodged the shaft and rent the hunter.

Rattling, shuddering, the wooden planets began to rotate and spin, Saturn's rings to whirl, moons their precessions, our own Earth its nutational wobble, all picking up speed.

Discovery executed a complex series of precessions, until eventually its end-over-end tumble had almost vanished.

Yet spins, precessions, and satellite resonances perturbed all planetary periods.