outswinging

Updated: June 3, 2025

He, too, veered toward them as he passed, and they in turn recognized the courtesy by going out of their orbits as they passed. What, therefore, should be said of the outswinging movement of Uranus from his orbit in that part of his course where no disturbing influence was known to exist? Certainly something must be in that quarter of space to occasion the perturbation. What was it?

- Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century: Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World