What is "precess"

Usage examples of "precess".

Time, as she shouldand that hunk of anti-matter will precess in the opposite temporal direction.

The Rock is tilted the way it is for good reasons, though it does precess enough to bring the Blue Marble into sight at regular intervals.

In the Mannschenn Drive Room the complexity of spinning gyroscopes precessed, tumbled, quivered on the very edge of invisibility, pulling the ship and all her people with them down the dark dimensions, through the warped continuum, down and along the empty immensities of the rim of space.

Mannschenn Drive unit precessed and tumbled, falling down and through the warped continuum, pulling the structure of the ship with them.

Whereas, as a CUPV, I might be overworked and precessed and so on, but I do get to work.

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.

Listing to the north: as a gyro parked with props and not disconnected precessed to the north when left too long, moving at right angles to the force the turning of the globe exerted upon it.

Beyond the port, the monstrous gaseous globe of Goldin XI precessed in stately, indifferent silence.

He had experienced the uncanny sensation of temporal disorientation when the precessing gyroscopes slowed, ceased to precess.

Subtly the keening song of the spinning, precessing gyroscopes wavered and, as it did so, the outlines of the people and instruments in the control room lost their sharpness, while the colors of everything momentarily dulled and then became more vivid.

The thin, high whine of the Mannschenn Drive Unit deepened as the spinning, precessing gyroscopes slowed to a halt, and as they did so there came the nauseating dizziness of temporal disorientation.

Drive as the precessing gyroscopes slowed to a stop, experienced the inevitable sense of temporal disorientation.

It was the governor, that comfortingly stable rotor at which he always looked after too long a time spent staring at the precessing gyroscopes.

Long Drop, who have ridden to the stars on a crazy contraption of precessing gyroscopes through the warped fabric of the continuum.

He could imagine those shining rotors starting to turn, spinning faster and faster, spinning, precessing at right angles to all the dimensions of normal space, tumbling through the dark infinities, dragging the ship and all aboard her with them as the temporal precession field built up.