Get to know Precess better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like travel or move.
Precess meaning
- To have an angle that varies cyclically.
- To wobble; to rotate about an axis that precesses.
Using Precess
- The main meaning on this page is: To have an angle that varies cyclically. | To wobble; to rotate about an axis that precesses.
- Useful related words include: travel, go, move, locomote.
- In the example corpus, precess often appears in combinations such as: to precess.
Context around Precess
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Precess
- In this selection, "precess" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, similarly and steadily stand out and add context to how "precess" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include it would precess steadily and and leads to precess about the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "precess" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with precess
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This causes the top to precess. (6 words)
In falling, the top overshoots the level at which it would precess steadily and then oscillates about this level. (19 words)
A small body in secular resonance with a much larger one (e.g. a planet ) will precess at the same rate as the large body. (25 words)
Just as Mercury's perihelion precesses around the Sun due to General Relativity, S0-2 should similarly precess around this supermassive black hole, except with a much larger effect. (29 words)
When the disc is spinning, however, aerodynamic torque instead leads to precess about the spin axis, causing its trajectory to curve to the left or the right. (27 words)
A small body in secular resonance with a much larger one (e.g. a planet ) will precess at the same rate as the large body. (25 words)
Example sentences (5)
Just as Mercury's perihelion precesses around the Sun due to General Relativity, S0-2 should similarly precess around this supermassive black hole, except with a much larger effect.
A small body in secular resonance with a much larger one (e.g. a planet ) will precess at the same rate as the large body.
In falling, the top overshoots the level at which it would precess steadily and then oscillates about this level.
This causes the top to precess.
When the disc is spinning, however, aerodynamic torque instead leads to precess about the spin axis, causing its trajectory to curve to the left or the right.
Common combinations with precess
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to precess 2×