precessional
- a word derived from precession.
Example Sentences
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Though this motion, or precession, is barely perceptible, the Martian axis leans in the opposite direction every 25,000 years, or halfway through a complete precessional cycle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The precessional effect of the moon would accordingly tend to make the pole of the earth's axis describe a circle around that point in the heavens which is the pole of the moon's orbit.
From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
The movement of the moon's plane, only occupying about 18-2⁄3 years, is a very rapid motion compared with the whole precessional movement, which occupies about 26,000 years.
From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
I thought of the great precessional cycle that the pole of the earth describes.
From The Time Machine by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
There were besides two other numerical coincidences quite as extraordinary; an identity of direction, relative to the stars, of the equator and orbit of the moon; exactly the same precessional movements of these two planes.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert
