MEANING
A device that uses rotational or related physical effects to sense or maintain orientation.
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- navigation gyroscope
- gyroscopic stabilization
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The damaged gyroscope reported a turn the pilot had not made.
Gyroscopes kept the camera steady as the lander shuddered.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular gyroscope; plural gyroscopes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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