gimbal

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.
    — The lamp wriggled in its gimbals, the barometer swung in circles, the table altered its slant every moment […]
动词 v.
  1. To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals. transitive
    — 1918, Richard Dehan (Clotilde Graves), That Which Hath Wings, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter 32, […] he conned his course in masterly fashion by aid of the roller-map, protected by its transparent, rainproof casing, or the compass, clock, altimeter, and other instruments gimballed in the wooden frame in front of the pilot’s seat.
  2. To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments. transitive
  3. To swivel, move on an axis. intransitive

词形变化

gimbals plural gimbals present,singular,third-person gimbaling US,participle,present gimballing UK,participle,present gimbaled US,participle,past gimbaled US,past gimballed UK,participle,past gimballed UK,past

词源

词源 1
Alteration of gemel, from Old French gemel, jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus.
词源 2
Alteration of gemel, from Old French gemel, jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus.
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