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.