Associations to the word «Precess»

Wiktionary

PRECESS, verb. (of an axis of rotation) To have an angle that varies cyclically.
PRECESS, verb. (of a rotating object) To wobble; to rotate about an axis that precesses.

Dictionary definition

PRECESS, verb. Move in a gyrating fashion; "the poles of the Earth precess at a right angle to the force that is applied".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats