Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move in or be subjected to precession.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To undergo an east to west movement like that of the equinoxes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To have an angle that varies
cyclically . - verb of a rotating object To
wobble ; torotate about an axis that precesses.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb move in a gyrating fashion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you are a admin or started up a Facebook page, there is a authentication precess which is going on to verify if you are legit or not.
Planet Malaysia abi 2010
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The precess of 33 year old custom of conducting the paper based exam will come to an end from this year.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The GrowHaus, located in an old warehouse at 47th and York, grows various vegetables, and even raises fish, which provide nutrients for plants in a precess called aquaponics.
The GrowHaus: Building A Community Around Food In Elyria-Swansea Ethan Axelrod 2011
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The GrowHaus, located in an old warehouse at 47th and York, grows various vegetables, and even raises fish, which provide nutrients for plants in a precess called aquaponics.
The GrowHaus: Building A Community Around Food In Elyria-Swansea Ethan Axelrod 2011
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The precess of 33 year old custom of conducting the paper based exam will come to an end from this year.
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I totally blanked on it, and had to use a precess of elimiantion to figure out what it referred to.
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The diabolical thing was like a gyroscope that had started to precess, because torque had been applied to it.
Tin 2010
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I ask myself does the average conservative have a analitical thought precess?
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I was lucky enough last Summer to go inside DFA building and there was a lot of pre-production and character development of the Frog precess hanging over the walls, the visuals really look fantastic... a little bit of miyasaki kind of style....
At Disney Steve Hulett 2006
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The election of the first chancellor was especially significant precess involving all the stakeholders.
1997 1997
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