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Precession vs Oscillation - What's the difference?

precession | oscillation |

As nouns the difference between precession and oscillation

is that precession is precession while oscillation is the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated.

precession

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

  • (uncountable) precedence
  • * ''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.
  • (physics, countable) The wobbling motion of the axis of a spinning body when there is an external force acting on the axis.
  • (astronomy, uncountable) The slow gyration of the earth’s axis around the pole of the ecliptic, caused mainly by the gravitational torque of the sun and moon.
  • Any of several slow changes in an astronomical body's rotational or orbital parameters.

    • Derived terms

    * Larmor precession * precession of the equinoxes * precession of the ecliptic * axial precession *

    Related terms

    * precess

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    oscillation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia oscillation) (en noun)
  • the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated
  • a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean
  • a single such cycle
  • (mathematics) (of a function) defined for each point x in the domain of the function by \inf\left\{\mathrm{diam}(f(U))\mid U\mathrm{\ is\ a\ neighborhood\ of\ }x\right\}, and describes the difference (possibly ?) between the limit superior and limit inferior of the function near that point.

    • Related terms

    * oscillator

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