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Definition of Gyroscopically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gyroscopically
Literary usage of Gyroscopically
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)
"... in which the difference of steadiness was shown of a copper shell filled with
liquid and spun gyroscopically, according as the shell was slightly oblate ..."
2. Aircraft Year Book by Manufacturers Aircraft Association (1921)
"It is almost impossible to make a map or mosaic from aerial photographs without
a suspended camera, either controlled by hand or gyroscopically — and the ..."
3. The Dynamics of Mechanical Flight: Lectures Delivered at the Imperial by George Greenhill (1912)
"A paddle steamer has the main shaft across the ship, and so is affected gyroscopically
by the rolling, not pitching. (Worthing- ton, Dynamics of Rotation. ..."
4. Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington, Stephen Sargent Visher (1922)
"... have remained essentially stationary with reference to the earth, although
the whole earth has been gyroscopically tilted back and forth repeatedly. ..."
5. Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives (1920)
"Only some form of gyroscopically controlled pointer, keeping its direction in
space, will indicate the inclination of the plane with respect to the true ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... liquid and spun gyroscopically, according as the shell was slightly oblate or
prolate. According to the theory above the stability is regained when the ..."
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