Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rigid frame or ring in which an object is supported by pivots. Two such rings mounted on axes at right angles to each other allow an object such as a ship's compass to remain suspended in a horizontal plane between them regardless of any motion of its support.
- noun A device consisting of gimbals.
- transitive verb To supply with or support on gimbals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contrivance, as a ring moving on horizontal pivots, for securing free motion in suspension, or for suspending anything, as a chronometer, so that it may keep a constant position or remain in equilibrium.
- noun Joined or interlocked work whose parts move within each other, as a bridle-bit or interlocked rings; a gemel-ring.
- noun A quaint piece of mechanism; a gimcrack.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.
- noun (Mach.) a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal.
- noun a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
device for suspending something, such as a ship'scompass , so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The gimbal is a collaborative development with Red Team sponsors HD Systems, Philips and KVH.
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Although the alignment between Eagle and Columbia looked good, as the vehicles came together they experienced a potentially nasty phenomenon known as gimbal lock.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Although the alignment between Eagle and Columbia looked good, as the vehicles came together they experienced a potentially nasty phenomenon known as gimbal lock.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Although the alignment between Eagle and Columbia looked good, as the vehicles came together they experienced a potentially nasty phenomenon known as gimbal lock.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Although the alignment between Eagle and Columbia looked good, as the vehicles came together they experienced a potentially nasty phenomenon known as gimbal lock.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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So then would be more of your value prop adding what your core capabilities are to that existing kind of gimbal just viewing technology?
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“We also had a ride-rig, which was a computer-programmed gimbal, with the shell of a scorpioch on top of it,” says Davis.
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Each tube even has a removable pin that allows me to schlep offshore rods with gimbal-lock butts without them swinging.
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Joe Carnahan: I put those guys -- God bless them -- on a gimbal that rotated on a 30-foot fuselage that spun at a very high rate of speed.
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Each tube even has a removable pin that allows me to schlep offshore rods with gimbal-lock butts without them swinging.
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