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gyroscope
(encz) | gyroscope,gyroskop n: Zdeněk Brož |
gyroscope
(encz) | gyroscope,setrvačník n: Zdeněk Brož |
Gyroscope
(gcide) | Gyroscope \Gy"ro*scope\ (j[imac]"r[-o]*sk[=o]p), n. [Gr. gy^ros
ring, circle + -scope.]
1. A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for
illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the
composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor
W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the
rotascope.
[1913 Webster]
2. A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault,
mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of
the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to
preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of
the earth's motion.
[1913 Webster] |
gyroscope
(wn) | gyroscope
n 1: rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted
spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any
direction [syn: gyroscope, gyro] |
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gyroscope
(encz) | gyroscope,gyroskop n: Zdeněk Brožgyroscope,setrvačník n: Zdeněk Brož |
zoogyroscope
(gcide) | Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion +
-graph.]
1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine,
combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for
projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly
(25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an
objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the
illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector;
also, any of several other machines or devices producing
moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the {movie
projector} are animatograph, biograph, bioscope,
electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph,
kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope,
zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is
the result of the introduction of the flexible film
into photography in place of glass. --Encyc. Brit.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by
the instrument described above.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
gyroscope
(wn) | gyroscope
n 1: rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted
spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any
direction [syn: gyroscope, gyro] |
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