precess

1. 1.

   move in a gyrating fashion

   “the poles of the Earth precess at a right angle to the force that is applied”

   Broadertravel

Other forms of precess

past tense

precessed·

present participle

precessing·

third person

precesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about precess

What does precess mean?

precess means "move in a gyrating fashion".

How many syllables are in precess?

precess has 2 syllables: pre-cess. The stress falls on "cess".

Is precess a common word?

precess is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.