Word Meanings - GYROSTATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics.

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• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• GYROSTATIC
  Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics.
• GYROSTAT
  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.
• GYROSTATICS
  The doctrine or theory of the gyrostat, or of the phenomena of rotating bodies.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach