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s | precession |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun precession is

precession.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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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