gyrostatic

/ ˌdʒaɪrəʊˈstætɪk /

adjective

1. of or concerned with the gyroscope or with gyrostatics

Derived Forms

• ˌgyroˈstatically, adverb

Example Sentences

Let the frame of the gyrostatic spring-balance described above, turn round the line joining the hooks so as to exactly compensate, by turning in the opposite direction, the angular momentum about that line given by the fly-wheels; then the arrangement will have no angular momentum on the whole; and a large number of such balances, all very minute and hooked together, will form a substance without angular momentum in any part.

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A remark made in § 96 should be borne in mind by all who essay to solve gyrostatic problems.

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The system is said by Thomson and Tait in such a case to be under gyrostatic domination.

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Reference has been made to the treatment of "gyrostatic domination" in "Thomson and Tait."

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The earth's precessional motion is a gyrostatic effect due to the differential attraction of the sun, which tends to bring the plane of the equator into coincidence with the ecliptic, and so alters the direction of the axis of rotation.

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