English Explanatory Dictionary

Milankovitch cycle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the three cyclic variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, respectively the obliquity of its axis, the precession of the equinoxes, and the eccentricity of its orbit.

Word forms

Milankovitch cycle Milankovitch cycles

Etymology

Named after the Serbian geophysicist Milutin Milanković (1879-1958).

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