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Gyroscope   Listen
noun
Gyroscope  n.  
1.
A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope.
2.
A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion.





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"Gyroscope" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shut up! My head's spinning like a gyroscope. All I know is that I want to marry her and she won't let me—and I believe she would if I had a reliable hair-restorer and wasn't near-sighted—but she ran away and got inside the ...
— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers


Words linked to "Gyroscope" :   gyroscopic, rotating mechanism, gyro, gyrocompass, gyrostabilizer


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