How to Use precession in a Sentence

precession

noun

• The Toronto team used this precession to act as the hands of a clock, called a Larmor clock.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
• The occurrence of a precession provides clues to how the black holes formed.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2016
• While some events started with precession in a low phase, all started with tilt at a peak or on the way up.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2020
• Now the evidence of phase precession jumped out at him.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 11 June 2021
• This type of movement, which is caused by the warping of spacetime, is known as Schwarzchild precession.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2020
• Our planet’s precession causes the pole stars to change.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• The trick to a perfect point: Use a precession liner and pointed Q-tip for (inevitable) cleanup.
  — Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 July 2022
• The Earth slowly wobbles on its axis—a phenomenon known as precession—which means certain stars in the night sky shift over time.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• Tearing can also lead to the formation of rings that undergo precession and start wobbling around the axis of their rotation.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2020
• However, the Earth has moved on its axis since then, a process known as precession, so now the dates that are used to mark the signs don’t really correspond to the background constellations that give them their signs names.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 June 2018
• Scientists have observed the same type of movement, called Schwarzchild precession, in the orbit of Mercury (to a lesser extent) due to the sun's gravitational pull.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2020
• Their heads spin in one direction, while the tail rotates around it in the opposite direction in a process known as precession—much like Earth spinning on its axis while orbiting the Sun.
  — Charlotte Hartley, Science | AAAS, 31 July 2020
• The number of Mississippians who report being employed could top the precession high when April data is released Friday.
  — Jeff Amy, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• Lescarbault’s sightings were never confirmed, and the perihelion precession of Mercury remained a puzzle for nearly six more decades.
  — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 6 May 2018
• In these conditions, gravitational nudges from a large satellite could have resonated with the precession of Uranus’ axis of spin, causing the planet to gradually tip onto its side.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
• The phenomenon, known as Schwarzschild precession, would, in time, cause S2 to trace out a spirographlike flower pattern in space (as shown above)—as general relativity predicts.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 16 Apr. 2020
• Interactions with these temporary particles affect the g-factor, causing muons' precession to gain or lose speed slightly.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2021
• Since O’Keefe’s discovery, phase precession has been intensively studied in rats.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 11 June 2021
• Another theory is that phase precession might be essential to learning.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 11 June 2021
• All other planets orbit the sun in perfect accord with Isaac Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation, but Mercury appeared to advance a tiny amount with each orbit, a phenomenon known as perihelion precession.
  — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 6 May 2018
• Several years later, a radiophysicist named Paris Herouni performed a series of amateur studies branching off from Parsamian’s, using telescopic methods and the precession laws of Earth.
  — Karine Vann, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
• Similarly, gravitational time dilation, the bending of light by large masses, and the precession of everything from planetary orbits to rotating spheres sent up to space has demonstrated spectacular agreement with Einstein’s predictions.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• General relativity accounts precisely for the observed precession of Mercury's orbit.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024