gyroscope

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gew-der.

Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros)lbor.

French gyro-

Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Hellenic *sképt͏̌omai

Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Hellenic *-ós

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Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.

Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)

Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)

Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.

French -scope

French gyroscopebor.

English gyroscope

Borrowed from French gyroscope, coined in 1852 by physicist Leon Foucault, equivalent to gyro- +‎ -scope, from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle”) and σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌskəʊp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌskoʊp/

Noun

gyroscope (plural gyroscopes)

1. 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. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer, used to help keep aircraft and ships steady.
   • 2022 March 23, “Network News: Hitachi on-train track monitoring trial expands to Scottish routes”, in RAIL, number 953, page 13:

     Working with NR, ScotRail and Porterbrook, Perpetuum has fitted sensors with gyroscopes and accelerometers to trains that are already in passenger service.

Derived terms

• gyroscope compass
• gyroscopic
• gyroscopic stabilizer
• microgyroscope

Related terms

• gyro
• gyrocompass
• gyroscopy
• lasergyro

Translations

apparatus — see also gyrostat

• Arabic: جَيْرُوسْكُوب (jayrūskūb)
• Catalan: giroscopi m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陀螺儀 / 陀螺仪 (to⁴ lo⁴ ji⁴⁠)

  Mandarin: 陀螺儀 / 陀螺仪 (zh) (tuóluóyí), 迴轉儀 / 回转仪 (zh) (huízhuǎnyí)

• Czech: gyroskop (cs) m
• Danish: gyroskop c
• Dutch: gyroscoop (nl) m
• Finnish: gyroskooppi (fi)
• French: gyroscope (fr) m
• Galician: xiroscopio m
• German: Gyroskop (de) n
• Greek: γυροσκόπιο (el) n (gyroskópio)
• Hungarian: giroszkóp (hu)
• Icelandic: snúður (is) m, snúðvísir
• Indonesian: giroskop (id)
• Interlingua: gyroscopio
• Italian: giroscopio (it) m
• Japanese: ジャイロスコープ (ja) (jairosukōpu)
• Korean: 자이로스코프 (ko) (jairoseukopeu)
• Malay: gegasing, giroskop
• Polish: żyroskop (pl) m
• Portuguese: giroscópio (pt) m
• Russian: гироско́п (ru) m (giroskóp)
• Slovene: žiroskop m
• Spanish: giroscopio (es) m
• Swedish: gyroskop n
• Tagalog: halintigal
• Tamil: சுழல்காட்டி (cuḻalkāṭṭi)
• Turkish: jiroskop (tr)

See also

• INS

Further reading

• “gyroscope”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• gyroscope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From gyro- +‎ -scope, coined in 1852 by physicist Leon Foucault, from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle”) and σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.ʁɔs.kɔp/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

Noun

gyroscope m (plural gyroscopes)

1. gyroscope

Derived terms

• gyroscopique
• gyroscopiquement

Further reading

• “gyroscope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012