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; to rotate 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

[Back-formation from precession.]

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The precess of 33 year old custom of conducting the paper based exam will come to an end from this year.

    IIM CAT exam will be held online from this year 2009

  • I totally blanked on it, and had to use a precess of elimiantion to figure out what it referred to.

    Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

  • The diabolical thing was like a gyroscope that had started to precess, because torque had been applied to it.

    Tin 2010

  • I ask myself does the average conservative have a analitical thought precess?

    Sarah Palin: 'She’s not retreating, she’s reloading' 2009

  • 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

  • The election of the first chancellor was especially significant precess involving all the stakeholders.

    1997 1997

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