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gimbals

Length / number of characters: 7
Number of words: 1

  • 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

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