different between axis vs precession

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?æks?s/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?æks?s/
• Hyphenation: ax?is

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin axis (“axle, axis”) in the 16th century.

Noun

axis (plural axes)

1. (geometry) An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry).

2. (mathematics) A fixed one-dimensional figure, such as a line or arc, with an origin and orientation and such that its points are in one-to-one correspondence with a set of numbers; an axis forms part of the basis of a space or is used to position and locate data in a graph (a coordinate axis)
3. (anatomy) The second cervical vertebra of the spine

   Synonym: epistropheus

4. (psychiatry) A form of classification and descriptions of mental disorders or disabilities used in manuals such as the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
5. (botany) The main stem or central part about which organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged

Coordinate terms

• (cervical vertebra): atlas

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Etymology 2

From Latin, name of an Indian animal mentioned by the Roman senator Pliny.

Noun

axis (plural axises)

1. Axis axis, a deer native to Asia.

   Synonyms: chital, cheetal, chital deer, spotted deer, axis deer

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See also

• Chital on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Axis axis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *aksis, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?s-i-s, from *h?e?s- (“axis, axle”); see also Lithuanian ašis (“axle”), Sanskrit ???? (ák?a, “axis, axle, balance beam”), Ancient Greek ???? (áx?n, “axle”), Old High German ahsa (“axle”), Icelandic eax, öxull, öksull, Old English eaxl (whence English axle).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ak.sis/, [?äks??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ak.sis/, [??ksis]

Noun

axis m (genitive axis); third declension

1. An axletree of wagon, car, chariot.
2. The North Pole.
3. The heavens or a region or clime of these.
4. A board, plank.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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Descendants

References

• axis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• axis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• axis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• axis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• axis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Langenscheidt Pocket Latin Dictionary

English

Alternative forms

• præcession (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English precessioun, precession, from Medieval Latin pr?cessi?n-, pr?cessio, from Latin praec?d?.

Noun

precession (countable and uncountable, plural precessions)

1. (uncountable) Precedence.

   But as it will not do to talk entirely at random, as Montaigne does, and Ralph Waldo Emerson tries to do, we must take up some little thread or threads. and string our thoughts thereupon, keeping up also a relation among them of precession and succession.

2. (physics, countable) The wobbling motion of the axis of a spinning body when there is an external force acting on the axis.
3. (astronomy, uncountable) The slow gyration of the earth's axis around the pole of the ecliptic, caused mainly by the gravitational torque of the sun and moon.
4. Any of several slow changes in an astronomical body's rotational or orbital parameters.

Derived terms

Related terms

• precess

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Anagrams

• encopresis, necropsies, preconises