gimbal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gimbal	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for gimbal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gimbal n an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gimbal \Gim"bal\, [or] Gimbals \Gim"bals\, n. [See {Gimmal}, n.] A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first. {Gimbal joint} (Mach.), a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal. {Gimbal ring}, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.