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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of precess.

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Examples

  • October 19th, 2007 at 5: 10 pm lots of great eco-friendly elements and precesses that the completed building includes.

    BURJ AL-TAQA: Zero-Energy Tower for the Middle East | Inhabitat 2007

  • The earth rotates on an axis which precesses, similar to that of a spinning top with one point fixed.

    A Great Leap…Forward? John 2008

  • I used the Rita book, the Kim book, Achieve PMP success, the examcram2 book, the PMBOK from which I learned very little, the style was too dry for my taste and additional online resources - especially useful was the table of the 39 precesses, their inputs, tools, and outputs.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • I used the Rita book, the Kim book, Achieve PMP success, the examcram2 book, the PMBOK from which I learned very little, the style was too dry for my taste and additional online resources - especially useful was the table of the 39 precesses, their inputs, tools, and outputs.

    PMP 2005

  • Lis precesses and points at a bunch of kids on the far side of a pile of artistically arranged rubble who are gathered around a gibbet, poking things that glow into the flinching flesh of whatever is incarcerated in the cast-iron cage.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Leverrier had in 1845 calculated that Mercury's orbit precesses 35 '' per century in contrast to the

    Forces 2001

  • It precesses, tracing out a narrow cone with a period of 26,000 years.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • It precesses, tracing out a narrow cone with a period of 26,000 years.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • It precesses, tracing out a narrow cone with a period of 26,000 years.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • This forms a system which precesses about the axis of shaft 2 in response to a force on the flywheel in line with shaft 2

    Chapter 4 1990

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