Milankovitch-cycle Definition

noun

(climatology) 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.

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milankovitch-cycle
Plural:
milankovitch-cycles

Origin of Milankovitch-cycle

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

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