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What does precess mean?

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Verb
  1. (axis) To have an angle that varies cyclically.
  2. (of a rotating object) To wobble; to rotate about an axis that precesses.
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Councillor Sheelagh Clarke, the cabinet member for social care and well-being, said during the meeting that the council's procurement precess had been sound.
Frictional forces in a gyro cause it to precess, which, in turn, causes a creep or drift of the heading card.
The spinning motion of the proton gives it magnetic properties and causes it to precess in an applied magnetic field, much as a spinning top precesses in a gravitational field.
The Security men were attempting to instruct the computer to precess the wheel back to its original position.
It has a magnetic moment, and therefore muons can be considered as little magnetic gyroscopes which precess in magnetic fields.
It causes the axis of the Earth to precess, about one revolution every 25,800 years.

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