Usually means: Axial tilt rotation causing seasons.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word precession:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. precession: Merriam-Webster
  2. precession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. precession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. precession: Collins English Dictionary
  5. precession: Vocabulary.com
  6. Precession, precession: Wordnik
  7. precession: Wiktionary
  8. precession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. precession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. precession: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. precession: Dictionary.com
  12. precession: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Precession (astronomy), Precession (disambiguation), Precession (mechanical), Precession: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Precession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. precession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. precession: Rhymezone
  17. Precession: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. precession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. precession: FreeDictionary.org
  20. precession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. precession: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Precession (astronomy), precession: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. precession: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Precession: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Precession: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Precession: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. PRECESSION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Precession: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. JPL Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See precessional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (precession)

noun:  (uncountable) Precedence.
noun:  (physics, countable) The wobbling motion of the axis of a spinning body when there is an external force acting on the axis.
noun:  (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.
noun:  Any of several slow changes in an astronomical body's rotational or orbital parameters.

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