Wobble in a sentence as a noun

The closer in they are, the more wobble there is.

They weebly and they wobble but they never fall down!

Anyone else wobble their Macbook back and forth to see if the background shifts in response?

As the objects have a similar size the centre of mass appears to wobble as it moves along.

Putting it down on the side that makes it wobble feels less natural than putting it flat-side down.

It was my first thought, too. I'm not terribly up-to-date on how Kepler has been detecting planets, but isn't it due to the 'wobble' of the stars?

In addition, the planet orbiting the star makes it wobble a bit, and from that you can calculate its mass.

As the plate went up in the air I saw it wobble, and I noticed the red medallion of Cornell on the plate going around.

You may as well ask why Feynman bothered spending time studying why dinner plates rotate faster than they wobble.

Wobble in a sentence as a verb

The great thing about threaded steel pipe is that you can tighten or loosen the pipes slightly to eliminate any wobble.

I discovered that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice as fast as the wobble ratetwo to one.

There are a multitude of other factors such as sol's 11 years cycle and Earth wobble that can counteract global warming or manifest a cooling down trend over short time intervals.

I discover that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice as fast as the wobble rate - two to one [Note: Feynman mis-remembers here---the factor of 2 is the other way].

That makes the COG appear to 'wobble'.IF the planet is in something like a 'lagrange point' where it always sees both stars in the same relative position, then the COG approximation is true.

He observed somebody in a cafeteria throwing a plate into the air, and noticed an interesting relationship between the plate's wobble speed and spin speed.

Basically any planet whose orbit from our perspective looks like an oval rather than a left-right wobble will not be observed by current methods which check for light flickers as the planets cross their star.

Every idea can't be curing cancer, and many innovative ideas are stumbled on while playing with something else - like Feynman discovering quantum electrodynamics because he was curious about why spinning plates wobble.

Wobble definitions

noun

an unsteady rocking motion

verb

move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street"

See also: coggle

verb

move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"

See also: careen shift tilt

verb

tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion"

See also: shimmy