gimbal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.

   Crane made a number of these instruments, mounted in gymbals, so that the delicate needles were free to turn in any direction whatever.

Alteration of gemel, from Old French gemel, jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus.

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