precess

How To Use precess In A Sentence

• Means are provided to rotate the central pivot bearings (42) so that the flywheels (30) may be forcibly precessed. Chapter 4
• The gravitational pull of the sun and moon cause a phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes, which makes the earth's axis move in a cone shape.
• (Newton must have been mystified by the failure of his seemingly parallel derivation of the 9 year precession of the line of apsides to achieve better than 50 percent agreement.) Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
• This effect is known as the precession of the equinox. Causes of climate change
• In addition to the precession and nutation of the Earth's rotational axis, the Earth itself undergoes a wobble such that the crust wanders about the rotational axis with a combination of two periods and amplitudes.
• I ask myself does the average conservative have a analitical thought precess? Sarah Palin: 'She’s not retreating, she’s reloading'
• The rate of change in the direction of the rotational axis is the ratio of torque to angular momentum and so gives a value for the precessional constant.
• I totally blanked on it, and had to use a precess of elimiantion to figure out what it referred to. Making Light: Open thread 136
• the poles of the Earth precess at a right angle to the force that is applied
• Why name the signs after constellations when they have precessed along the way? Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today