Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A compass with a motorized gyroscope whose angular momentum interacts with the force produced by the earth's rotation to maintain a north-south orientation of the gyroscopic spin axis, thereby providing a stable directional reference.
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- noun A
north -seeking form ofgyroscope used as adirectional reference innavigation .
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- noun a compass that does not depend on magnetism but uses a gyroscope instead
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Examples
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The thing about a gyrocompass is that you can use it differently than that though.
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About fifteen minutes into the flight we had a gyrocompass failure, and we lost attitude control.
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Then take the gyrocompass and attach it to the dimensional cannon and allow it to program the device.
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Then he injected it into the fluid that needed to go into the center of the gyrocompass.
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A normal gyrocompass finds true north, not magnetic north, by using a very quickly rotating wheel and friction forces in order to use the turn of the Earth in its orienting process.
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The gyrocompass will continue to orient on that star making a full revolution once with each complete rotation of the planet, the Doctor explained.
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At 10:26 P.M. Sunday night, the gyrocompass broke again.
The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009
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Both the radar and gyrocompass were fried and the officers distrusted the magnetic compass.
The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009
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Lucas found that neither the gyrocompass nor the rudder angle indicator worked.
The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009
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The fifth submarine, beset by a broken gyrocompass, did not set out until 05.30 and would spend most of the day travelling in circles.
Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009
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