Recession vs Precession - What's the difference?
recession | precession |
The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
* Jeremy Taylor
A period of reduced economic activity
The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
(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.
As nouns the difference between recession and precession
is that recession is the act or an instance of receding or withdrawing while precession is precedence.recession
English
(wikipedia recession)Noun
(en noun)- Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice.
- ''Statisticians often define a recession as negative, real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.