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gyroscope
noun
gy·ro·scope
ˈjī-rə-ˌskōp 
British also ˈgī-
: a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
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Advanced sensors with accelerometers and gyroscopes track shots and passes with 1,000 data points per second.
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Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The new touchpad, gyroscope, and both RGB lighting and TDP configuration options are among the things on their to-do list.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
Most likely, the techniques currently used to package various microelectromechanical sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, can be applied to vacuum-channel transistors without too much fuss.
—Jin-Woo Han, IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2014
Larger-sized units like ring-laser gyroscopes have been around since the 1970s.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2025
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Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The new touchpad, gyroscope, and both RGB lighting and TDP configuration options are among the things on their to-do list.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
Most likely, the techniques currently used to package various microelectromechanical sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, can be applied to vacuum-channel transistors without too much fuss.
—Jin-Woo Han, IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2014
Larger-sized units like ring-laser gyroscopes have been around since the 1970s.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Gyroscope.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gyroscope. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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gyroscope
noun
gy·ro·scope
ˈjī-rə-ˌskōp
: a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis that is free to turn in various directions
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