A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος gŷros, "round" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining orientation and angular...
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Look up gyroscope in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principle of conservation...
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The Foucault gyroscope was a gyroscope created by French physicist Léon Foucault in 1852, conceived as a follow-up experiment to his pendulum in order...
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A Gyroscopic stabilizer is a control system that reduces tilting movement of a ship or aircraft. It senses orientation using a small gyroscope, and counteracts...
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Sperry Corporation (redirect from Sperry Gyroscope Company)
as the developer of the artificial horizon and a wide variety of other gyroscope-based aviation instruments like autopilots, bombsights, analog ballistics...
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gyroscope may refer to: Ring laser gyroscope Fibre-optic gyroscope This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Laser gyroscope....
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A quantum gyroscope is a very sensitive device to measure angular rotation based on quantum mechanical principles. The first of these was built by Richard...
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Gyrocompass (redirect from Gyroscopic compass)
vehicle. A gyroscope is an essential component of a gyrocompass, but they are different devices; a gyrocompass is built to use the effect of gyroscopic precession...
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fibre-optic gyroscope (FOG) senses changes in orientation using the Sagnac effect, thus performing the function of a mechanical gyroscope. However its...
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The hemispherical resonator gyroscope (HRG), also called wine-glass gyroscope or mushroom gyro, is a compact, low-noise, high-performance angular rate...
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A vibrating structure gyroscope (VSG), defined by the IEEE as a Coriolis vibratory gyroscope (CVG), is a gyroscope that uses a vibrating structure to determine...
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A ring laser gyroscope (RLG) consists of a ring laser having two independent counter-propagating resonant modes over the same path; the difference in...
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Gyroscopic control may refer to: Control moment gyroscope, an attitude control device generally used in spacecraft attitude control systems Gyroscopic...
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A flying gyroscope (also known as a flying cylinder or flying tube) is a cylindrical wing or annular airfoil. It is thrown like a football, and can fly...
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Inertial navigation system (section MEMS gyroscope)
navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position...
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The gyroscopic autopilot was a type of autopilot system developed primarily for aviation uses in the early 20th century. Since then, the principles of...
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Gyroscope are an Australian rock band from Perth, which formed in 1997 as Gyroscope Sunday. The members are Daniel Sanders as lead vocalist and on guitar...
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Operation Gyroscope was a United States Army program implemented between 1955 and 1959 during the Cold War that modified the system of troop rotation...
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The Gyroscope was an American brass era automobile built in Detroit, Michigan first by the Blomstrom Manufacturing Company [de] in 1908, and then the...
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Anti-rolling gyro (redirect from Stabilizing gyroscope)
Ship stabilizing gyroscopes are a technology developed in the 19th century and early 20th century and used to stabilize roll motions in ocean-going ships...
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PIGA accelerometer (redirect from Müller-type pendulous gyroscopic accelerometer)
A PIGA (Pendulous Integrating Gyroscopic Accelerometer) is a type of accelerometer that can measure acceleration and simultaneously integrates this acceleration...
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Precession (redirect from Gyroscopic precession)
Torque-induced precession (gyroscopic precession) is the phenomenon in which the axis of a spinning object (e.g., a gyroscope) describes a cone in space...
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A control moment gyroscope (CMG) is an attitude control device generally used in spacecraft attitude control systems. A CMG consists of a spinning rotor...
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Gyroscope is an action video game published by Melbourne House in 1985 for the Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum....
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The discography of Australian rock group Gyroscope consists of four studio albums, thirteen singles, and five EPs. Notes ^ A. Around the World in 16 Songs...
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Gyroscope is an open-source PHP framework and a code template system for building web backend systems. Gyroscope uses a specific and yet flexible user...
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Gyro monorail (redirect from Gyroscopic monorail)
gyro monorail, gyroscopic monorail, gyro-stabilized monorail, or gyrocar are terms for a single rail land vehicle that uses the gyroscopic action of a spinning...
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the plan was to drop into one-gyroscope mode if fewer than three working gyroscopes were operational. The gyroscopes are part of the Pointing Control...
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Molecular gyroscopes are chemical compounds or supramolecular complexes containing a rotor that moves freely relative to a stator, and therefore act as...
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Caroline Records (redirect from Gyroscope (record label))
bands. Caroline had a number of subsidiary labels, including Astralwerks, Gyroscope, Caroline Blue Plate, Beat the World, Scamp and Passenger. In 2013, the...
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