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gyroscopeMechanical instrument, used as a stabilizing device and consisting, in its simplest form, of a heavy wheel mounted on an axis. The direction of the axis is stable; if it is displaced, the gyroscope tends to resist the change. Applications of the gyroscope principle include the gyrocompass, the autopilot for automatic control of an aircraft, and gyro-directed torpedoes. |
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| com) has cleared, and what's on view is the Segway, a gyroscopically controlled electric scooter. If you've been boating for awhile, there doubtless have been times when you could really use those big gyroscopically stabilized binoculars that the U. The musician that Black Arts Movement theorist Amiri Baraka championed was Sun Ra, and it is here that two seemingly contradictory aesthetic philosophies meet in the kind of gyroscopically delightful resolution that virtuoso jazz soloists nightly pluck from the air. |
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