: a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
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Housed at the Geodetic Observatory in Wettzell, Bavaria, the unique instrument delivered a level of precision 100 times greater than that of any previous ring laser or gyroscope.—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025 By measuring the rotation and acceleration of atoms, this new kind of gyroscope can sense motion with improved precision compared to conventional gyros flown on drones, airplanes, and satellites.—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2025 Instead of using accelerometers and gyroscopes, a quantum sensor measures rotation and acceleration at the atomic level.—Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2025 The watch also features an accelerometer, a barometer, a compass, a gyroscope, and a temperature sensor.—PC Magazine, 17 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for gyroscope
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