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precess

[ pree-ses ]

verb (used without object)

Mechanics.


precess

/ ɪˈɛ /

verb

  1. to undergo or cause to undergo precession
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of precess1

First recorded in 1890–95; back formation from precession
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Frame-dragging makes the entire disk wobble in circles, similar to how a gyroscope precesses.

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Through a process known as frame-dragging, the black hole causes the disk’s axis of rotation to swing round, or “precess.”

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At the same time, this magnetic field causes the spin of the muons to precess smoothly like a gyroscope, as the particles travel around the ring, but with a small wobble.

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A vertical magnetic field bends their trajectories around the ring and also makes their spin axis twirl, or precess, like a wobbling gyroscope.

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These beams precess like a gyroscope, periodically entering Earth’s field of view.

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