What's the difference between march and precession?

March


Definition:

  • (n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
  • (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
  • (v. i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
  • (v. i.) To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
  • (v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.
  • (v. t.) TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.
  • (n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
  • (n.) Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.
  • (n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.
  • (n.) A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gross mortgage lending stood at £7.9bn in April compared with £8.7bn in March and a six-month average of £9.9bn.
  • (2) The sensitivity of ejaculated spermatozoa to ouabain (in inhibitor of Na+-K+ ATPase) was determined on 4 consecutive weeks in November, March-April, and July-August.
  • (3) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (4) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
  • (5) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
  • (6) Arena's final April issue goes on sale next Thursday, 12 March.
  • (7) It called for an independent, international inquiry as the only way to achieve full accountability, ahead of the March deadline for the Sri Lankan government to report back to the UN Human Rights Council.
  • (8) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
  • (9) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
  • (10) It also pledged support to a veterans’ group that rejected a request by a gay, lesbian and bisexual group to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Boston.
  • (11) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
  • (12) The study was undertaken from March 1984 to February 1985.
  • (13) The first versions, without mobile connectivity, will go on sale worldwide at the end of March, priced from $499 in the US; UK prices are not yet set.
  • (14) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
  • (15) In March, the independent manufacturer of a forthcoming VR gaming headset, the Oculus Rift, was bought by Facebook for $2bn.
  • (16) Mallon's finance and resources director, Paul Slocombe, thinks Pickles's argument is "slightly disingenuous" because the funding was part of the last spending review, which ends on 31 March.
  • (17) The two flight attendants feature in February and March in the annual Ryanair charity calendar.
  • (18) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
  • (19) The authors report 17 cases of large suprasellar meningiomas operated on during the 2-year period from February 1982 through March 1984.
  • (20) A few years later, I marched in protest at the imminent invasion of Iraq and felt the same exhilaration at being part of a collective.

Precession


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of going before, or forward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Self-reported and observer-rated signs and symptoms of nicotine withdrawal were assessed precessation and 2, 7, 14, 30, 90, and 180 days postcessation in smokers who quit on their own for 30 days.
  • (2) This review of basic physics of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) discusses precession of magnetic nuclei in a static external field, introduces the concept of the rotating frame, and describes excitation of nuclei by an RF field.
  • (3) By allowing a free precession interval before signal acquisition, time is left for field gradients to be switched and for undesirable transients to decay.
  • (4) We report in vitro and in vivo MR studies of hemorrhage using the gradient-echo pulse sequence, FISP (steady state free precession) and FLASH (spoiling of transverse magnetization) at 1.5 Tesla.
  • (5) Precession photographs from these crystal forms are very alike, suggesting the molecular packing to be similar in all three forms.
  • (6) Crystals were analyzed using precession photography and were assigned to trigonal space group R32 with unit cell dimensions a = b = 115 A, c = 385 A.
  • (7) The results obtained in a previous study using 131I fibrinogen in cancerous patients suggested a local intravascular clotting precess.
  • (8) According to the study of the 8 cases published since 1956 and of this personal case the precession of a benign porosyringeal tumour seems probable but has never been proved.
  • (9) Canavanine also affects regulatory and catalytic reactions of arginine metabolism, arginine uptake, formation of structural components, and other cellular precesses.
  • (10) The temperature, concentration and Larmor precession frequency dependences can be well described by the conception of fast exchange in a simple biphasic model of water molecules rotation in the first hydration layer with slight anisotropy of motion.
  • (11) The space group and unit cell dimensions were determined with a precession camera and a four-circle diffractometer to be C222(1), and a = 157.1 A, b = 85.5 A, and c = 79.7 A, respectively.
  • (12) Microperfusion of pertubular capillaries failed to demonstrate urinary precession of 3H-gentamicin over 14C-inulin, a finding which argues against a rapid transtubular secretory flux of gentamicin.
  • (13) When this residual phase coherency is utilized in conjunction with the fast SSFP (steady-state free precession) technique, both the FID and the echo signals can be obtained.
  • (14) Steady-state free precession (SSFP) pulse sequences can produce magnetic resonance (MR) images rapidly, in which cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is several times more intense than the other tissues.
  • (15) The detector is stationary which causes a distortion that is negligible for precession angles less than 10 degrees.
  • (16) There exists an age-related precession of taurine uptake values by brush border membrane vesicles prepared from nursing rats from youngest to oldest.
  • (17) Naturally processed peptide fragments bound to MHC class II molecules are peptides of 13-17 amino acids which appear to be precessively truncated from the carboxy terminus, perhaps after binding to the MHC class II molecule.
  • (18) The space group was determined using screenless small-angle precession photographs, and was confirmed by analyzing area detector diffraction data with the XENGEN programs for indexing and refinement.
  • (19) In a series of 18 consecutive cases of acute significant inversion trauma to the ankle, a three-dimensional fast imaging with steady-state precession pulse sequence (3D FISP) was performed.
  • (20) Results indicated that a FISP (fast imaging with steady precession) sequence with a TR of 50 msec, TE of 15 msec, velocity compensation in the read and section-select directions, acceleration compensation in the read direction, anisotropic volume, and a 1.25-mm partition thickness produced three-dimensional angiographic MR images that were accurate and reproducible in the depiction of the major intracranial vessels.