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Word Meanings - GYROSTAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies.

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  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • METALOGICAL
    Beyond the scope or province of logic.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • MODIFICATION
    The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.
  • INSTRUMENTAL
    Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
  • METALLIC
    Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
  • ROTATOR
    that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • METALLIFORM
    Having the form or structure of a metal.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • RIGID
    1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • RIGIDLY
    In a rigid manner; stiffly.
  • STUDY
    1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages. 2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature. Study thyself; what rank
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • WHEELBIRD
    The European goatsucker.
  • SUPPORTLESS
    Having no support. Milton.
  • FIXTURE
    Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
  • METALLIFACTURE
    The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
  • METALLOGRAPH
    A print made by metallography.
  • CIRCUMROTARY; CIRCUMROTATORY
    turning, rolling, or whirling round.
  • CATHERINE WHEEL
    See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • FOUR-WHEELER
    A vehicle having four wheels.
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • DEFIX
    To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
  • AFFIXION
    Affixture. T. Adams.
  • LAEVOROTATORY
    See DEXTROROTATORY
  • PELTON WHEEL
    A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
  • BIMETALLIST
    An advocate of bimetallism.
  • NONMETAL
    Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

 

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