Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

precession of the equinoxes

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables: pre-ces-sion of the e-quinox-es
IPA

50

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

5

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

"Some three thousand years ago (owing to the Precession of the Equinoxes) that star at the winter solstice did not stand at midnight where you now see it, but almost exactly ON the meridian line."

Inflected Forms

precessions of the equinoxes (plural)

Questions

What does precession of the equinoxes mean?: 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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