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/ɡˈɪmbəl/
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NOUN
- an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips
How To Use gimbal In A Sentence
- Multi-gimbaled, they were indifferent to any motion of the boat, fore and aft or side to side. Aweigh
- FIGS. 19 and 20 are trimetric illustrative and cross-sectional views, respectively, of other means by which this invention can hold a gimbaled rod-butt end against twisting.
- The rocket uses four first-stage gimballed engines and one second-stage engine.
- If you are making a harmonograph of the type shown in Fig. 168, use a gimbal for the platform pendulum, and design it so that the upper suspension gives a motion at right angles to the pen pendulum. Things To Make
- He wound the string through the eyehole and got it spinning on the pad of his finger, the rotor tumbling inside the whirring gimbals while the exterior remained fixed. DEVILS IN EXILE
- The actual port on the bottom of the camera barrel is mounted in a gimbal so the barrel can rotate around for the best picture.
- These were a ship's chronometer - a big one in a box, suspended with gimbals like a ship's compass - and two smaller, sturdier, pocket-sized ones.
- The maid withdrew and Latovsky wondered how she'd handle the heavy pot with her gnarled hands, then saw it was on gimbals. DOLL'S EYES
- He wound the string through the eyehole and got it spinning on the pad of his finger, the rotor tumbling inside the whirring gimbals while the exterior remained fixed. DEVILS IN EXILE
- Hydraulic gimbals were engineered to quietly move a 225-ton set around on the head of a pin.