Crossword clues for slewing
slewing
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vb. (present participle of slew English)
Wikipedia
Slewing is the rotation of an object around an axis, usually the z axis. An example is a radar scanning 360 degrees by slewing around the z axis. This is also common terminology in astronomy. The process of rotating a telescope to observe a different region of the sky is referred to as slewing.
The term slewing is also found in motion control applications. Often the slew axis is combined with other axis to form a motion profile.
In crane terminology, slewing is the angular movement of a crane boom or crane jib in a horizontal plane.
The term is also used in the computer game Microsoft Flight Simulator wherein the user presses a key and he or she can rotate and move the virtual aircraft along all three spatial planes.
In the modern day use of CNC programs, slewing is a vital part of the process.
Category:Mechanics
Usage examples of "slewing".
So that herd of twelve horses might spend a whole day thundering up and down the increasingly sloppy and treacherous field, with the players bellowing and cursing and the spectators roaring encouragement, and the sticks waving and crashing and often splintering, and the churned-up terrain plastering the players and horses and watchers and musicians, and the riders falling from their saddles and trying to scurry to safety and being cheerfully ridden down by their fellows, and, toward the end of the day, when the field was a mere swamp of mud and slime, the horses also slipping and slewing and falling down.
He wrenched on the reins, the Palomino responding magnificently, the horse slewing to an abrupt stop, even as Geronimo rose to his full height, the lance clenched in his right fist.
Other ships revectored, racing through fragment clouds to escape the carnage or form up for reengagement, sometimes slewing wildly out of control.
His last word was swallowed by howls of repulsorlifts and snarling turbojets that brought a gunship slewing into the gap from the other side of the ridge.
A minute later the campari was under way and, her afterdeck haphazardly packed with crates, was slewing round and heading away towards the east.
She backtracks to find a better road, but she keeps slewing around to look behind her as if she has left something behind.
Joao said a silent prayer, hauled back on the control arm, felt the pod mush out, touch ground, skidding and slewing.
Insects were all over the inside of the pod's glass now, blocking his vision, Joao said a silent prayer, hauled back on the control arm, felt the pod mush out, touch ground, skidding and slewing.
Tycho was in pursuit of a Blade, being pursued by another, and was sending laser fire in both directions, meanwhile slewing about in evasive action.
The Danes' fore-topgallant mast was falling, slewing round drunkenly as it fought against the pull of shrouds and stays before thundering over the side in a tremendous splash.
Plenna, apparently intuiting where Asedow would strike, dodged up and down, slewing sideways to let the beams pass.
His tribarrel floated on a frictionless magnetic bearing, but inertia made slewing it a deliberate business.
I suppose not one of us, slewing around corners in the machine that night, had the faintest doubt that we were on the right track, or that Fate, scurvy enough before, was playing into our hands at last.
Less than twenty yards away from the reef they dug their paddles deep, slowed down their outrigger canoe and brought it slewing round to a standstill less than ten feet away.
The lifter's pilot reacts far more swiftly, slewing the sled violently midair the instant the Hellbore powers up for the shot, which just misses one corner.