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Definition of Gimbals
1. gimbal [v] - See also: gimbal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gimbals
Literary usage of Gimbals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... The meter is in gimbals and is directed by a conical rudder which keeps it
facing the stream with its axis horizontal. There is an electric circuit from ..."
2. Animal Locomotion: Or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying, with a Dissertation on by James Bell Pettigrew (1883)
"... of a Compass set upon gimbals.—A careful examination of the movements in
skimming birds has led me to conclude that by a judicious twisting or ..."
3. Animal Locomotion by James Bell Pettigrew (1874)
"The Flight of the Albatross compared to the Movements of a Compass set upon
gimbals.—A careful examination of the movements in skimming birds has led me to ..."
4. A Treatise of Mechanics: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1826)
"gimbals, a contrivance by means of which barometers, vessels of oil, mariner's
compasses, &c. may be suspended so as to arrange their upper parts ..."
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