precession

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Radio waves are beamed in and synchronize the precessions of the spins, temporarily flipping some of them.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2024

The planet is liable to shocks from comets, perturbations from planets, rendings from earthquake and volcano, alterations of climate, precessions of equinoxes.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

The last group of sequences includes orbital precessions, seasonal alternations, and daily variations.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

This angle of tilt may be assumed to be constant, for I won't bother with the precessions, nutations and other minor movements considered in accurate computations.

From The Solar Magnet by Meek, S. P. (Sterner St. Paul)

In Table 2 the types of climatic sequences which follow "geologic oscillations" are "glacial fluctuations," "orbital precessions" and "historical pulsations."

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth