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- verb Present participle of
precess .
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Examples
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The interplanetary and relativistic corrections can be shown, to lowest order in perturbation theory, to result in the major axes of the planetary orbits precessing in space.
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Perhaps the the Sun and seasons took on more importance than the Moon used to, and it was more appropriate to use a precessing tropical zodiac so that the Sun's entry into the signs will always be in step with the calendar.
Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today 2010
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So what part of this product or it precessing is organic to be able to be considered ‘BIO’
READER TIP: Bio Glass is a Gorgeous Surface Recycled from Bottles | Inhabitat 2010
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I guess what I get here is that like every one else we are wondering why did they choose the tropical zodiac, and why Hindus use the non- precessing sidereal zodiac – why do they no longer use the constellations of the zodiac?
Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today 2010
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OK, so if the new direct observations of BH disks huge gap variation are correct and the jets are (somehow) mainly driven by a likely (somehow) self-regulated minor mass stream into the BH, does this mean we laymen get to bet our money on the jets precessing as causing apparent flares?
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Perhaps particles have been shocked at some location in the blazar jet, or the jet may be precessing so that is closer to our line of sight, or there may be some other explanation.
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These floating industries involve fringe precessing and are usually put up to circumvent tariff walls and create the illusion of economic progress.
SEMIFEUDALISM IN THE PHILIPPINES: Myth or Reality? Abhay N 2007
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Proposition 45 applies the result on precessing orbits mentioned earlier to the special case of nearly circular orbits, that is, orbits like those of the then known planets and their satellites.
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007
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You will then find an RF blip indicating the particle is precessing as one would predict from the magnetic field the other particle is subject to.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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"Coming up," said Glade, and then a picture of balls moving in their orbits appeared, a mesmerizing dance around a central point, but none of the orbits were closed, all of them precessing in the same direction.
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