wobble

• “After each wobble, there's a flat spot that you can slide across before that big cactus bulge grows out to gobble you.” He's wildly twitching his board, like a salmon climbing a fish-ladder. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
• The last asteroid she'd sent a probe to was shaped like a four-kilometer long dog bone with an eccentric wobble, and the gravity going around the long end was three times that of circling the narrow middle. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
• This wobble is called precession, a circular motion of an object's axis of spin or change in its axis of rotation. —  AeonTen
• Now we both know your dreidel will wobble, the frustration comes when we cannot predict with any certainty whether it will fall to Nun (nothing) or Gimmel (everything). —  AeonTen
• Moving selected deck segments in an unbalanced way created a wobble, the carefully timed actions pumping a resonant motion. —  Analog SFF, September 2006

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