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nounrotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
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- ge a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
- foucault French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)
- gyroscopic having the characteristics of a gyroscope
- germanium a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
- gyromitra gigas a gyromitra with a large irregular stalk and fertile part that is yellow to brown and wrinkled; has early fruiting time
- atomic number 32 a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
- mild silver protein antiseptic consisting of a compound of protein and silver (trade name Argyrol)
- gyromitra any fungus of the genus Gyromitra
- gyromitra sphaerospora a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a rosy pink fluted stalk and smooth round spores; found on hardwood slash east of the Great Plains
- beefsteak morel a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown