gyroscope

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌskəʊp/    美 /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌskoʊp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of the frame in any direction or position. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer, used to help keep aircraft and ships steady.
    — Working with NR, ScotRail and Porterbrook, Perpetuum has fitted sensors with gyroscopes and accelerometers to trains that are already in passenger service.

词形变化

gyroscopes plural

词源

Borrowed from French gyroscope, coined in 1852 by physicist Leon Foucault, equivalent to gyro- + -scope, from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle”) and σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”).
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