"drift excursion" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a reference to the excursion or deviation of a sea vessel from its course due to drift resulting from tides, wind, etc., this term has been generalized to refer to any deviation in position due to outside forces.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1966, Carl A. Wagner, The Earth's Longitude Gravity Field as Sensed by the Drift of Three, page 89:",
          "text": "A very close approximation to the geographic drift excursion in a resonant gravity field of a 24-hour satellite follows the differential equation of motion, Equation 2, (see also Reference 2) and is, evidently, given by an elliptical integral such as that developed in Appendix E of Reference 3.",
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          "ref": "2013, Roscoe B White, Theory Of Toroidally Confined Plasmas, page 418:",
          "text": "A collision changes the detailed nature of the particle orbit in a time which is very short compared to the time required to traverse magnetic field scale lengths, thus producing a step across flux surfaces the size of the orbit drift excursion away from the flux surface .",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, S. Lalit Sagar, Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, T. P. Anand, Vasant A. Matsagar, “Development of a Quasi-Static Bidirectional Loading Protocol for the Seismic Evaluation of Hybrid RC-SCC Beam-Column Joints”, in Federico M. Mazzolani, editor, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas:",
          "text": "The bidirectional drift excursion for the beam-column joint is applied in the anticlockwise direction as per the numbering sequence illustrated in Figs. 8a and 8b.",
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        "The movement of something (such as a vehicle, structure, or charged particles) from its intended course or position due to outside forces."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "banana orbit"
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  "word": "drift excursion"
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  "etymology_text": "Originally a reference to the excursion or deviation of a sea vessel from its course due to drift resulting from tides, wind, etc., this term has been generalized to refer to any deviation in position due to outside forces.",
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        {
          "ref": "1966, Carl A. Wagner, The Earth's Longitude Gravity Field as Sensed by the Drift of Three, page 89:",
          "text": "A very close approximation to the geographic drift excursion in a resonant gravity field of a 24-hour satellite follows the differential equation of motion, Equation 2, (see also Reference 2) and is, evidently, given by an elliptical integral such as that developed in Appendix E of Reference 3.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Roscoe B White, Theory Of Toroidally Confined Plasmas, page 418:",
          "text": "A collision changes the detailed nature of the particle orbit in a time which is very short compared to the time required to traverse magnetic field scale lengths, thus producing a step across flux surfaces the size of the orbit drift excursion away from the flux surface .",
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        },
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          "ref": "2024, S. Lalit Sagar, Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, T. P. Anand, Vasant A. Matsagar, “Development of a Quasi-Static Bidirectional Loading Protocol for the Seismic Evaluation of Hybrid RC-SCC Beam-Column Joints”, in Federico M. Mazzolani, editor, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas:",
          "text": "The bidirectional drift excursion for the beam-column joint is applied in the anticlockwise direction as per the numbering sequence illustrated in Figs. 8a and 8b.",
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