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Lense-Thirring effect comparison table

Subject	is an instance of	is a kind of	has definition
precession		axis motion	The uniformly progressing motion of the pole of rotation of a freely rotating body undergoing torque from external gravitational forces. In the case of the Earth, the component of precession caused by the Sun and Moon acting on the Earth's equatorial bulge is called lunisolar precession; the component caused by the action of the planets is called planetary precession. The sum of lunisolar and planetary precession is called general precession. (See nutation.)
Lense-Thirring effect	precession		The precession of the plane of the geodesic orbit of a test particle around a rotating mass in general relativity. It arises from the coupling of the rotation of the central mass with the orbital angular momentum of the test particle. This precession is described as resulting from the dragging of inertial frames.

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