GYROSTABILIZER


Meaning of GYROSTABILIZER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌjī-rō-ˈstā-bə-ˌlī-zər ]

noun

Date: 1921

: a stabilizing device (as for a ship or airplane) that consists of a continuously driven gyro spinning about a vertical axis and pivoted so that its axis of spin may be tipped fore-and-aft in the vertical plane and that serves to oppose sideways motion — called also gy·ro·stat ˈjī-rə-ˌstat

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