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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
precess .
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Examples
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Why name the signs after constellations when they have precessed along the way?
Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today 2010
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When the truck turned a corner, the drive precessed right out through the side of the truck.
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Beyond the port, the monstrous gaseous globe of Goldin XI precessed in stately, indifferent silence.
Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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As the galaxy ponderously precessed through the universe the searoom and nearby portions of the artifact became populated by a whole crop of little Candomblean assassins.
Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Means are provided to rotate the central pivot bearings (42) so that the flywheels (30) may be forcibly precessed.
Chapter 4 1990
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The big ship precessed around him; he stirred gently and did not awake.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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This will require that the ship be slowly precessed during the entire maneuvering acceleration.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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This will require that the ship be slowly precessed during the entire maneuvering acceleration.
Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958
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The big ship precessed around him; he stirred gently and did not awake.
Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958
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New needle roller bearings are being provided with improved cage designs, including, for example, special precessed cages.
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