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Named after the Serbian geophysicist Milutin Milanković (1879-1958).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Milankovitch cycle
Today it means: 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. Full definition →