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gyroscope
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gyroscope \Gy"ro*scope\ (j[imac]"r[-o]*sk[=o]p), n. [Gr. gy^ros ring, circle + -scope.]
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. an apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of the frame in any direction or position. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer, used to help keep aircraft and ships steady.
WordNet
n. rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction [syn: gyro]
Wikipedia
A gyroscope (from Greek γῦρος gûros, "circle" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a spinning wheel or disc in which the axis of rotation is free to assume any orientation by itself. When rotating, the orientation of this axis is unaffected by tilting or rotation of the mounting, according to the conservation of angular momentum. Because of this, gyroscopes are useful for measuring or maintaining orientation.
Gyroscopes based on other operating principles also exist, such as the electronic, microchip-packaged MEMS gyroscopes found in consumer electronics devices, solid-state ring lasers, fibre optic gyroscopes, and the extremely sensitive quantum gyroscope.
Applications of gyroscopes include inertial navigation systems where magnetic compasses would not work (as in the Hubble telescope) or would not be precise enough (as in intercontinental ballistic missiles), or for the stabilization of flying vehicles like radio-controlled helicopters or unmanned aerial vehicles, and recreational boats and commercial ships. Due to their precision, gyroscopes are also used in gyrotheodolites to maintain direction in tunnel mining. Gyroscopes can be used to construct gyrocompasses, which complement or replace magnetic compasses (in ships, aircraft and spacecraft, vehicles in general), to assist in stability ( Hubble Space Telescope, bicycles, motorcycles, and ships) or be used as part of an inertial guidance system.
Gyroscope are an Australian rock band from Perth, which formed in 1997 as Gyroscope Sunday. The members are Daniel Sanders as lead vocalist and on guitar, Zoran Trivic on guitar and backing vocals, Brad Campbell on bass guitar and backing vocals and Rob Nassif on drums. As of 2014 the group has released four studio albums on major labels.
Gyroscope's first major label album, Sound Shattering Sound, was released in June 2004 – seven years after formation. It peaked at No. 37 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Their second such album, Are You Involved?, was issued in September 2005, which debuted at No. 20. It was followed by a double A-sided single, " Fast Girl / Beware Wolf", both tracks polled on the national radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2005. The band's rise in popularity continued with their third album, Breed Obsession, which appeared in March 2008 and peaked at No. 1. It was nominated for 'Best Rock Album' at the ARIA Music Awards of 2008. It was released through Warner Music Australasia and provided four singles, including " Snakeskin" (No. 30 on the ARIA Singles Chart and listed at No. 16 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2007) and the anthem, " Australia". The band's fourth album, Cohesion, was released in April 2010, which reached No. three and included the singles, " Some of the Places I Know" and " Baby I'm Getting Better", which charted at No. 32 and No. 34, respectively.
Gyroscope is an action video game published by Melbourne House in 1985 for a number of home computers. It is based on the Atari arcade game Marble Madness.
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 two-cylinder engine, which had a horizontal flywheel. They claimed the vehicle increased stability and prevented skidding with this powertrain setup. Although other companies had this type of layout, the Gyroscope was the only one to claim its stability effect. The 16 hp engine connected to a friction transmission and shaft drive, with three body styles available.
Gyroscope is an open source PHP framework and a code template system for building web backend systems. Gyroscope uses a specific and yet flexible user interaction model to reveal and explore the inner-relations of a database.
A gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principle of conservation of angular momentum.
Gyroscope may also refer to:
- Ring laser gyroscope, uses ring lasers
- Fibre optic gyroscope, uses fibre optics and light interference
- Rate integrating gyroscope, a type of rate gyro
- Vibrating structure gyroscope, functions much like the halteres of an insect
- Gyroscope (band), a post-grunge rock band from Perth, Western Australia
- "Gyroscope" (song), a song from the album Transmission by The Tea Party
- "Gyroscope", a song from the album Whoracle by In Flames
- "Gyroscope", a song from the album Emergency & I by The Dismemberment Plan
- "Gyroscope", a song from the album Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
- "Gyroscope" (software), a web framework written in PHP and JavaScript
- Gyroscope (video game), a video game published by Melbourne House
- Operation Gyroscope, a program by the US military
"Gyroscope" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tea Party. It was released as a promotional single in Australia, Canada and the USA. It received airplay on Australian radio station Triple J.
"Gyroscope" started off as just a Middle Eastern-styled riff on a saz, and that is what the bass line became; it started with an Edges of Twilight feel, then the beat was completely reversed and a lot of electronics were added. The band wrote also a Middle Eastern version of the song without words.
Black metal band Melechesh recorded a cover version for their 2006 album Emissaries.
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.