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Gimbal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A device consisting of two rings mounted on axes at right angles to each other so that an object, such as a ship's compass, will remain suspended in a horizontal plane between them regardless of any motion of its support. Often used in the plural. Also called gimbal ring.

v. To supply with or support on gimbals.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A contrivance, as a ring moving on horizontal pivots, for securing free motion in suspension, or for suspending anything, as a chronometer, so that it may keep a constant position or remain in equilibrium.

n. Joined or interlocked work whose parts move within each other, as a bridle-bit or interlocked rings; a gemel-ring.

n. A quaint piece of mechanism; a gimcrack.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips

Word Usage

"Although the alignment between Eagle and Columbia looked good, as the vehicles came together they experienced a potentially nasty phenomenon known as gimbal lock."

Equivalent

gimbals

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