歲差
suì​chā

precession

  • created sense approved 岁差/歲差 · suì​chā · precession — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    岁差 / 歲差

    suì​chā

    precession

    the slow movement of the earth's axis causing the equinoxes to move westward and making the solar year shorter than the sidereal year

    岁 (literal) → 岁/歲 · suì · year 差 (literal) → 差 · chā · difference

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense