Milankovitch cycle

English thumb|350 px|The Milankovitch cycles influence global temperatures Etymology Named after the Serbian geophysicist Milutin Milanković (1879-1958). Noun Milankovitch cycle en 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. en 2003 w:Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything BCA 2003 378 The Milankovitch cycles alone are not enough to explain cycles of ice ages. Hypernyms en cycle Translations Arabic: ar ْدَوْرَاتُ مِيلَانْكُوفِيتْش f-p Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 米蘭科維奇循環 German: de Milanković-Zyklen m-p Japanese: ja ミランコビッチ・サイクル Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Milanković-syklusene m-p Persian: fa چرخه‌های میلانکوویچ p Serbo-Croatian: sh Milankovićevi ciklusi m-p Swedish: sv Milanković-cykler c-p Turkish: tr Milankoviç döngüsü Further reading en eponyms