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• Gyroscope, n.: 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 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.
  -- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary...
• Gy-ro-scope: A wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpindicular to each other and 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.
  -- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary...
• gy-ro-scope: A wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpindicular to each other and 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.
  -- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary...
• gy-ro-scope: A wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpindicular to each other and the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpindicular 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.
  -- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary...
• You've won a free spin on the "Wheel of Meat"!
• I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets.
  Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -- one Earth orbit -- around the sun....
• infinite loop: n. One that never terminates (that is, the machine {spin}s or {buzz}es forever and goes {catatonic}).
  There is a standard joke that has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine...
• walking drives: n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machine}s.
  Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum...
• How many blondes -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Three. One to hold the light bulb, two to spin the ladder....