Sentence examples for rotates gradually from inspiring English sources

Subsequent observations of the planetary orbits showed that the long axis of the ellipse (the so-called line of apsides) rotates gradually with time; this rotation is known as apsidal precession.

But there's a twist – one that rotates gradually as the film turns with style and confidence through its multiple ambiguities.

But there's a twist that rotates gradually as the film turns with style and confidence through its multiple ambiguities.

Over time, the long axis of most orbiting bodies rotates gradually, generally no more than a few degrees per complete revolution, because of gravitational perturbations from other bodies, oblateness in the attracting body, general relativistic effects, and other effects.

Immanuel Kant, who was familiar with Swedenborg's work, developed the theory further in 1755, when Kant published his Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens, wherein he argued that gaseous clouds, nebulae, slowly rotate, gradually collapse and flatten due to gravity, eventually forming stars and planets.

At any rate, a systematic understanding may only be achieved by varying parametrically the perturbation parameters, e.g. stimulating at several locations uniformly distributed on the scalp, delivering TMS pulses at progressively higher intensities from threshold to saturation, rotating gradually the angle of the induced current to span the whole circle.

In the middle magnetosphere, at distances greater than 20 RJ from Jupiter, co-rotation gradually breaks down and the plasma begins to rotate more slowly than the planet.

Under an applied shear loading, the platelets rotate, thereby gradually increasing the transmittance of light through the device, in a controllable and reversible manner.

In the further course of the experiment, as the bucket continues to rotate, the water gradually begins to rotate with it, and as it does so, begins to climb up the sides of the bucket.

However, a Foucault pendulum oscillates along a plane that gradually rotates over the course of a day due to Earth's rotation, and in turn knocks over a series of pins encircling the pendulum.

The results showed that the flow direction in the unsaturated zone gradually rotates counterclockwise from the vertical direction to the lateral downslope direction parallel to the slope surface during the drying phase.