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US
/pɹiˈsɛʃən/
]
[ UK /pɹɪsˈɛʃən/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪsˈɛʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone
- the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
How To Use precession In A Sentence
- The device is called a proton precession magnetometer. The Moses Expedition
- An example is periodic motion, such as the precession of a particle with intrinsic spin and magnetic moment in a constant magnetic field.
- (The observed precession is really 5270 ''/century, but a painstaking calculation to subtract the disturbances from all the other planets gives the value of 43 ''.) Forces
- This conclusion is consistent with the hypothesis that the rotational axis of the minor planet has no precession.
- Then, in great precession we walked out to the field for commencement accompanied by bagpipes.
- It is also referred to as the precession of the equinoxes or the great year in a comprehensive dictionary. Archive 2008-08-01
- Einstein's theory predicts that such gyroscopes will undergo geodetic precession merely because space-time is curved in the planet's vicinity.
- There is a small periodic effect called nutation superimposed on precession caused by the motion of the perihelion of the Moon.
- Even Newtonian physics was unable to give a complete explanation of its orbit: the direction of the axis was found to move by rather more than could be explained by precession and the gravitational attraction of the other planets.
- As it was a foreign language to me try "clinometer", "collective pitch", "geometrical precession", I stopped them in their tracks and looked for another angle of approach. Honesty, Oprah, and the Formal Learning Industries
