1. The motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone 
2. The act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
   - precedence, precedency

Derived forms: precessions

See also: precede

Type of: activity, motion

Encyclopedia: Precession

• quell
• quelled
• quelling
• quellung
• quellung reaction
• quench
• quenchable
• quenched
• quenched steel
• quencher
• quenching
• quenchless
• quenelle
• Quentin Jerome Tarantino
• Quentin Tarantino
• quercitron
• quercitron oak
• Quercus
• Quercus agrifolia
• Quercus alba
• Quercus arizonica
• Quercus bicolor
• Quercus borealis
• Quercus cerris
• Quercus chrysolepis