precess's Usage Examples:

body is itself rotating about a second axis, that body is said to be precessing about the second axis.

An apsidal period is the time interval required for an orbit to precess through 360°.

the orbital plane of the Moon precesses in space, the lunar nodes also precess around the ecliptic, completing one revolution (called a draconic or nodal.

onto a spherical background, since the location of a satellite's nodes precess over time.

which is the plane about which the orbital planes of planetary satellites precess.

gyroscope's roll axis and allowing it to "precess" either in the pitch or the yaw axes.

Allowing it to precess as the ship rolls causes its spinning rotor.

this trepidation model, the oscillation is added to the equinoxes as they precess.

different local times during the mission, the satellite orbit was designed to precess with respect to the Earth-Sun line such that the local time at apogee decreased.

This bulge creates a gravitational effect that causes orbits to precess around the rotational axis of the primary body.

The direction of precession.

any inhomogeneous effects which cause different spins in the sample to precess at different rates.

This change was needed because the poles of some asteroids and comets precess rapidly enough for their north and south poles to swap within a few decades.

At thermal equilibrium, nuclear spins precess randomly about the direction of the applied field but become abruptly phase.

sensitivity by monitoring a high density vapor of alkali metal atoms precessing in a near-zero magnetic field.

The frame-dragging effect will cause a gyroscope to precess.

The rate of precession is given by Ω k = G c 2 r 3 [ S k − 3 ( S ⋅ x ).

only in the case where all perturbers and resonances are far from the precessing body.

distort the spacetime metric, making the orbit of a nearby test particle precess.

When only the static magnetic field (B0) is turned on, the spin will precess around it with Larmor frequency ν0 and the corresponding angular frequency.

Sun-synchronous orbit is achieved by having the osculating orbital plane precess (rotate) approximately one degree eastward each day with respect to the.

field being stronger at the outside of the volume, the ion orbits will precess around the inner area.

Synonyms:

go; locomote; travel; move;

Antonyms:

ride; ascend; recede; rise; stay in place;