What it Teaches: gyroscopic inertia, also known as the gyroscopic effect. From Wordnik.com. [5 Great Science Toys] Reference
On the rail undoubtedly he ran something called a gyroscopic engine, and carried his stores and machinery into the wilderness. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Rocked the Earth] Reference
All this gyroscopic and mono-rail development naturally absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
On dairy cows and their amazing gyroscopic whirligig adventures. From Wordnik.com. [On agro] Reference
Such are the attributes of both gyroscopic stabilizers AND the nation. From Wordnik.com. [American Coastopia!] Reference
The gyroscopic forces would make it topple to the outside of the corner. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - How in the…] Reference
The wheels create a gyroscopic action which automatically tends towards upright. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - How in the…] Reference
The gyroscopic resistance may show up as heat, sure, but not the magnetogravitic. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
Your cannon will end up functioning a bit like a gyroscopic compass, he told her. From Wordnik.com. [Drabble Smut] Reference
I'm starting to over-write it so i'll send it out now. giant gyroscopic space colonies. From Wordnik.com. [Where the earth is the sky is the earth] Reference
Gradually the room shifted on its gyroscopic center and wove and undulated about his chair. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
The cycle is deemed to be related to the gyroscopic precession, or wobble of the Earth axis. From Wordnik.com. [Inconvenient Graphic « Climate Audit] Reference
It is almost as if the nation had a gyroscopic stabilizer that keeps it more or less upright. From Wordnik.com. [American Coastopia!] Reference
In fact, they roll often enough that I think there must be some gyroscopic effect at work here. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Will there be a gyroscopic resistance to any changes or vector additions against the rotation axis?. From Wordnik.com. [Designing a Space Habitat] Reference
But the real mischief began when Brennan sprang his gyroscopic mono-rail car upon the Royal Society. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
The gyroscopic stabilizers that ringed their suits 'waists kept the fragile pyramid from collapsing. From Wordnik.com. [Mindbridge]
Strapped in tight, the security harness keeping me locked in place, suspended inside this gyroscopic machine. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
I wonder if they thought of using the gyroscopic intertia of the flywheel to keep the car pushed to the road. From Wordnik.com. [Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Speed Booster | Inhabitat] Reference
It didn't include left to right and the gyroscopic possibilities of mixing these different planes of direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Dadaist] Reference
Because of early gyroscopic, inner ear damage from spinning/falling down contests with my brothers, I hate rides. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Clinton: Our State of Affairs is a Great State Fair] Reference
They were stopping the centrifuge so the Rook could maneuver without having to take gyroscopic effects into account. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
He was dangling before her face a little twenty-first century gimcrack, a gyroscopic pendant or something like that. From Wordnik.com. [Up The Line]
A table was filled with books, including some new handbooks on gyroscopic compasses and the control of ships by radio. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Holland]
After it is started, the weight of the wheel keeps it going level, based on the gyroscopic principle (like a toy top). From Wordnik.com. [4. Plastic clay forming] Reference
Without cams and camshafts, the engine is smaller, lighter, and has alot less rolling resistance and gyroscopic effect. From Wordnik.com. [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference
Metal screamed as a huge spring shot sternward along a track, pulling on the rope to the primary gyroscopic stabilizer. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons at War]
Up four feet from the disc is a link self aligning bearing that allows the shaft and disc to turn like a gyroscopic top. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
Rotate them fast enough and they will detach, a gyroscopic whirligig on its way to a dairy farm halfway across the world. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
The INS is a self-contained gyroscopic navigation device that does not rely on any outside information for aircraft navigation. From Wordnik.com. [Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile] Reference
The curlicue stayed in the air wherever you put it and when you moved it you could feel the faintest sort of gyroscopic resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
Dale Oliver has 4th-grader Katlyn Roberts demonstrate gyroscopic stability during an educational program at Highland Park Elementary. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
The Sperry Corporation, maker of bombsights and gyroscopic stabilizers, had a patent-sharing agreement with a German company, Askania. From Wordnik.com. [Human Smoke] Reference
Rev the engine while standing astride the bike and you feel a gentle rolling motion to the right, thanks to engine's gyroscopic forces. From Wordnik.com. [BMW's HP2 Mixes Sport With Traditional 'Boxer' Engine] Reference
When you set it in motion, the Techno Powerball slowly comes alive with gyroscopic force. From Wordnik.com. [Blather and Bosh] Reference
A gyroscopic head tracker was used to monitor head movement of subjects during the study. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
In addition to rotation, the earth's axis also exhibits an extremely slow gyroscopic motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
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