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Definitions of gyro
  1. noun
    rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction

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  2. noun
    a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread
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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 esculenta 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
  • sperry United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)
  • artificial horizon a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope; it artificially provides a simulated horizon for the pilot
  • jean bernard leon 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)
  • california false morel a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a thick fluted stalk; found under conifers in California
  • gyro horizon a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope; it artificially provides a simulated horizon for the pilot
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