Gyroscope meaning

Noun: gyroscope

Pronunciation: (‘ji-ru,skowp)

Gyroscope meaning: It is a wheel that spins and is held in a frame that allows it to tilt in any direction. Actually it is a wheel mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that rotation of one of the two axes could result from application of torque on the other.

Synonyms: gyro

Quotations: Paul Goodman – Patience is drawing on underlying forces, it is powerfully positive, though to a natural view it looks like just sitting it out. How would I persist against positive eroding forces if I were not drawing on invisible forces? And patience has a positive tonic effect on others; because of the presence of the patient person, they revive and go on, as if he were the gyroscope of the ship providing a stable ground. But the patient person himself does not enjoy it.

George Orwell – Throughout recorded time there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable.

Bruce Fein – Nothing in Al Gonzales? public statements, legislative proposals or anything else suggests that this is an individual who operates outside of the political gyroscope of President Bush.

Sample sentences:

1. There was actually a noticeable difference, and if you stop to think about it, it’s a bicycle and you’ve got this wheel, like a gyroscope in a way.
2. Do you have a toy gyroscope at your home?
3. The initial research focused on silicon gyroscopes.
4. Speed kills color, the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.
5. Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.
6. Now here’s the thing about being a little off-center; you’re never sure if you’re a bona fide loon or if you have insight that other people don’t have.You have to navigate through life using a kind of psychic gyroscope to keep from falling too far one way or another, and you feel a peculiar kinship with other people who are also a little bit off-center.
7. I love it so much I might agree to skip past friends and dating and have it’s little gyro babies.
8. Somehow she lost her compass. Her engine failed. Her gyroscope broke. She’s lost. She says the road she was on isn’t there any more and she doesn’t know where to walk now.
9. Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They’re professional cynics, and it’s too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands?
10. Recently, the search for what he calls the splinters that make up different attention problems has taken Castellanos in a new direction. First, he explains that your brain is far less concerned with your brilliant ideas or searing emotions than with its own internal gyroscopic busyness, which consumes 65 percent of its total energy.