Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun precession_of_the_equinoxes

1 sense of precession of the equinoxes

Sense 1
precession of the equinoxes -- (a slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic caused by precession of the Earth's axis of rotation)
       => natural process, natural action, action, activity -- (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity")