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gyroscope
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The Gyroscope was a brass era automobile built in Detroit, Michigan first by the Blomstrom Manufacturing Company in 1908, and then the Lion Motor Car Company in Adrian, Michigan in 1909. The Gyroscope was so named because of its engine, a horizontal, opposed ...
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n. rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction [syn: gyro ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
heavy rotating wheel with an axis free to turn in any direction, 1856, invented and named in French 1852 by Foucault, from Greek gyros "circle" (see gyre ) + skopos "watcher" (see scope (n.1)), because the device demonstrates that the earth rotates.
Usage examples of gyroscope.
In December 1995, Jordan intercepted 115 missile gyroscopes and material for making chemical weapons being smuggled to Iraq.
He could even hear the delicate whine of the gyroscopes that autonomously assisted him in maintaining balance.
The missile gyroscopes Iraq illegally acquired in 1995 came from Russian submarine-launched nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, which strongly suggests that the Russian government too has been at least cavalier about illegal arms exports to Iraq.
In the Mannschenn Drive Room the complexity of spinning gyroscopes precessed, tumbled, quivered on the very edge of invisibility, pulling the ship and all her people with them down the dark dimensions, through the warped continuum, down and along the empty immensities of the rim of space.
He had experienced the uncanny sensation of temporal disorientation when the precessing gyroscopes slowed, ceased to precess.
Subtly the keening song of the spinning, precessing gyroscopes wavered and, as it did so, the outlines of the people and instruments in the control room lost their sharpness, while the colors of everything momentarily dulled and then became more vivid.
The thin, high whine of the Mannschenn Drive Unit deepened as the spinning, precessing gyroscopes slowed to a halt, and as they did so there came the nauseating dizziness of temporal disorientation.
Drive as the precessing gyroscopes slowed to a stop, experienced the inevitable sense of temporal disorientation.
It was the governor, that comfortingly stable rotor at which he always looked after too long a time spent staring at the precessing gyroscopes.
Long Drop, who have ridden to the stars on a crazy contraption of precessing gyroscopes through the warped fabric of the continuum.
Gyroscopes whined viciously and rockets screamed, driving the ship down to the exosphere in a powered dive.
Fifty years ago, science fiction writers went into painstaking detail to show the reader that gyroscopes really could be used to maneuver a spacecraft on its way to the moon.
In December 1995, Jordan intercepted 115 missile gyroscopes and material for making chemical weapons being smuggled to Iraq.
His fingers played over the controls and the directional gyroscopes began to spin, and the hull turned about them.
She was out and clear now, out and clear, and Grimes cut both inertial and reaction drives, used his gyroscopes to swing the sharp prow of the ship on to the target star, the Doncaster sun, brought that far distant speck of luminosity into the exact centre of his spiderweb sights.