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Precaution
- noun - a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down"
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"
- the trait of practicing caution in advance
Preceptive
- - Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.
Precessing
- verb - move in a gyrating fashion; "the poles of the Earth precess at a right angle to the force that is applied"
Precession
- noun - the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
- the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone
Preciosity
- noun - the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
Precissing
- verb - make a summary (of)
Precluding
- verb - debar
- keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"
- Leave out
- make impossible, especially beforehand
Preclusion
- noun - the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively