precession

1. 1.

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

   Broadermotion
2. 2.

   the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)

   Synonymsprecedenceprecedency

   Broaderactivity

Other forms of precession

plural

precessions·

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 precession

What does precession mean?

precession means "the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in precession?

precession has 3 syllables: pre-ces-sion. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /pɹiˈsɛʃən/.

What is another word for precession?

Close synonyms include precedence, precedency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is precession a common word?

precession 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.

What rhymes with precession?

9 words rhyme with precession. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.