Precession is valid Scrabble Word

Is precession a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for PRECESSION in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of going before, or forward
the slow movement of the axis of a spinning body around another axis due to a torque (such as gravitational influence) acting to change the direction of the first axis. It is seen in the circle slowly traced out by the pole of a spinning gyroscope.
The act of going before, or forward.
the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone
the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a comparatively slow gyration of the rotation axis of a spinning body about another line intersecting it so as to describe a cone

Words related to PRECESSION

precessional16 precessionally21 precessions15

Words that contain PRECESSION

precessions15 precessional16 precessionally21

How to use PRECESSION in a sentence

Any doubts about the real purpose of the parade vanished when people read that the precession was to march from the City Park to Third street and Tower avenue and return.
He maintained that the precession was not greater than fifty-nine seconds, and not less than thirty-six seconds.
It considers the precession of the equinoxes, the discovery of Hipparchus, the full period of which is twenty-five thousand years.
From the inclination of its axis, there result the precession of the equinoxes and the many differences of the seasons, both simultaneous and successive, that pervade its surface.
The most beautiful astronomical discovery of antiquity, is that of the precession of the equinoxes.
By reason of the precession of the equinoxes, the pole does not always occupy the same place in the starry vault.
Seven spheres of crystal did not suffice for representing the phenomena as soon as the illustrious astronomer of Rhodes discovered precession.
Copernicus having deprived the earth of its alleged immobility, gave a very simple explanation of the most minute circumstances of precession.
I also agreed to make a new determination of the constant of precession, that which I had used in my previous work not being quite satisfactory.
When other constellations replaced them at those points, by means of the precession of the Equinoxes, those attributes were changed.

Precession of the Equinoxes, a little over fifty seconds, 449-l.
He also applied the law of gravitation to explain irregularities in the lunar motions, the precession of the equinoctial points, and the orbits of comets.
To abolish it entirely, as certain fevered reformers propose, would be as difficult as to abolish the precession of the equinoxes.
The two parts of the ring, being at different distances from the planet, could not fail to be given different movements of precession by the action of the sun.

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