The gyroscope the name is derived from two Greek words "gyros" means "turn" or revolution and "skopein" means "view.". The above derivatives say the meaning of a gyroscope is "to view the turning".Encyclopaedia Britannica defines the "gyroscope - device containing a rapidly spinning wheel or circulating beam of light that is used to detect the deviation of an object from its derived orientation" Offline Dictionary of English says gyroscope that-"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" Now we may conclude that the gyroscope is a device based on precession motion. It has a rotor a freely spinning disk with an axle installed on the gimbal(which is fixed to a massive strong frame structure), and can navigate in three directions of the space, to maintain the orientation, irrespective of any directional movement of the base.
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