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Precession of the equinoxes   Listen
Precession of the equinoxes

noun
1.
A slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic caused by precession of the Earth's axis of rotation.





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"Precession of the equinoxes" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Dakota man, however, to rise to the greatness of the subject: "I give you the United States, bounded on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on the east by primeval chaos, and on the west ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn


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