Usually means: Axial tilt causes equinox shift.
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  1. precession of the equinoxes: Merriam-Webster
  2. precession of the equinoxes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. precession of the equinoxes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. precession of the equinoxes: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. precession of the equinoxes: Wordnik
  7. precession of the equinoxes: Wiktionary
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  11. Precession of the equinoxes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (precession of the equinoxes)

noun:  The slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic, resulting from precession of the earth's axis of rotation, and causing the equinoxes to occur earlier each year.

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