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Precession vs Progression - What's the difference?

precession | progression |

As nouns the difference between precession and progression

is that precession is precession while progression is the act of moving from one thing to another.

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

    Anagrams

    * *

    progression

    English

    (wikipedia progression)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving from one thing to another.
  • The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.
  • (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.

    • Synonyms

    * (mathematics) sequence

    Derived terms

    * arithmetic progression * geometric progression

    Related terms

    * progress