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Word | Gimbals |
Japanese Meaning | ジンバル |
an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips / 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. / a mechanism, typically consisting of rings pivoted at right angles, for keeping an instrument such as a compass or chronometer horizontal in a moving vessel or aircraft., | |
Usage | ⇒ 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. |
Synonyms | axle, bobbin, contraption, fulcra, apparatus, appliance, arbor, artifice, axis, axletree, bower, clasp, clip, contrivance, convenience, device, gadget, gimbal ring, gismo, gizmo, |
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