precession

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Among other things, it was Hipparchus himself who first discovered Earth’s precession, and he modelled the apparent motions of the Sun and Moon.

From Scientific American

Hard to nitpick a team playing with the poise and precession of a Super Bowl contender.

From Seattle Times

The rate of precession depends on the strength of the muon’s internal magnet and is proportional to a factor that we call g.

From Scientific American

“I think ‘precession’ is a more specific word than wobble.”

From New York Times

Ghez and colleagues are now trying to tease out that precession from the extremely complicated data.

From Science Magazine