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gyroscopic

Word definitions for gyroscopic in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1871, from gyroscope + -ic . Related: Gyroscopically .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to, by means of, or in the manner of a gyroscope.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gyroscopic \Gy`ro*scop"ic\ (j[imac]`r[-o]*sk[o^]p"[i^]k), a. Pertaining to the gyroscope; resembling the motion of the gyroscope.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having the characteristics of a gyroscope

Usage examples of gyroscopic.

The older Sulu continued picking his slow and careful way through the shifting billows of blue light, until he stood inside the curving gyroscopic arms of the alien time transporter.

Dunlop widebody tennis racquets' super-secret-formulaic composition materials of high-modulusgraphite-reinforced polycarbonate polybutylene resin are organochemically identical I say again identical to the gyroscopic balance sensor and mise-en-scène appropriation card and priapistic-entertainment cartridge implanted in your very own towering father's anaplastic cerebrum after his cruel series of detoxifications and convolution-smoothings and gastrectomy and prostatectomy and pancreatectomy and phalluctomy .

All of these things are related to the Coriolis, the reeling gyroscopic effect of the earth’s spin that creates wind and flow of weather, the countering backwashes and eddies of storms.

The numbered dial of the gyroscopic compass showed but dimly before the wheel.

The small, heavy torus which was the source of the field was mounted on a post precisely at the crate's geometrical centre, on gymbals from a Navy-surplus gyroscopic compass.

The gyroscopic stabilizer which keeps the world running on trim and powers its motion around the sun.

Metal screamed as a huge spring shot sternward along a track, pulling on the rope to the primary gyroscopic stabilizer.

The gyroscopic stabilizers would keep it steady and level, ready to swing at a touch.

The gyroscopic stabilizers that ringed their suits' waists kept the fragile pyramid from collapsing.

All the relays were standard, the gyroscopic stabilizers were standard, and the electromagnetic braking equipment for the gyros was standard.

The heavy foam-flecked surf thundered up violently around his knees, but Andrew was able easily to adjust his gyroscopic stabilizers as the force of the breaking waves assailed him.