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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne