How to Use gyroscope in a Sentence

gyroscope

noun

• This was a great place to hone one’s inner gyroscope, and these were great cars to do it in.
  — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 17 Mar. 2018
• However, in the 15 years since then, three of the six gyroscopes have failed.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
• To some in the Thrones fandom, the gyroscope is a harbinger of how the series will end.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 27 June 2018
• Click on the gyroscope icon, the drone will fly according to the gravity of the mobile phone.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 6 Apr. 2021
• Many come in the form of a brace or a sports bra, but some are electronic devices, gyroscopes, or magnets that attach to the spine.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Health, 23 Jan. 2024
• Atlantis II, which featured a swimming pool on a gyroscope so that the water would not slosh in heavy seas.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• Nuzzo got up, but O’Malley backed him into the cage with a right side-kick and finished him with a gyroscope-quick, spinning wheel-kick.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2021
• What is missing is the gyroscope found in the original Siri Remote and was used for playing games.
  — Dwight Silverman, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• In any case, the best swinging robot out there at the moment is one made of just Legos and a gyroscope, which can twirl around its bar like a gymnast.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2017
• A slight glitch so far: Gizmo has a gyroscope inside that keeps the iPad balanced over the pole and wheels and the robot appears to bob slightly forward and back.
  — Anne Ryman, azcentral, 19 June 2017
• This taps into the accelerometer and gyroscope of the AirPods and the device it is connected to.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 22 June 2020
• At the same time, this magnetic field causes the spin of the muons to precess smoothly like a gyroscope, as the particles travel around the ring, but with a small wobble.
  — Marcela Carena, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• These smart swim goggles count your laps, pace, and even strokes per lap using a built in accelerometer and gyroscope.
  — Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• The first autopilot system, which involved connecting a gyroscope to the wings and tail of a plane, débuted in 1914, about a decade after the Wright brothers took flight.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• The spacecrafts’ gyroscopes are small spinning wheels that work to rotate the telescope and keep it stable while observing.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2018
• There's a camera, a magnetometer, and a gyroscope on-board.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2017
• It is equipped with a six-axis gyroscope and supports motion control.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
• Even the gyroscope of a compromised smartphone can pick up sounds even if the malware can't access its microphone.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 12 June 2020
• The team devised a bike with a minimal trail and with discs that rotate in the opposite direction of its wheels to cancel the gyroscope effect.
  — Gillian Conahan, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2012
• Launched in 1990, Hubble has had trouble with its gyroscopes before.
  — Marcia Dunn, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
• Rather than using lidar, gyroscopes, or infrared sensors to navigate your home, Matic sees like a human being and builds maps of the area on the fly.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
• The monitoring apps use the phone’s GPS, gyroscope, and motion-detection chips to figure out when the phone was in a moving car and whether its touchscreen was being used.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• Then the ball, spinning like a gyroscope, suddenly hung a sharp left turn and crossed into fair territory.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019
• As a result, the space agency has just two fully functional gyroscopes.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
• One solution, Hudnut says, is to look for a watch that also has a gyroscope, which helps track changes in motion, irrespective of GPS.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 17 Aug. 2020
• The always-whirling Mr. Trump is capable of spinning himself off his gyroscope.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• A couple of days before the concert, Bowie attended a Rockettes performance at Radio City — one of the performers was lowered to the stage from the rafters on a gyroscope.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 July 2023
• The Joy-Con controllers have a gyroscope that is extremely sensitive to movement.
  — Washington Post, 14 July 2021
• In what appears to be a clear competitor to Life Alert, the Series 4 detects falls using a new accelerometer and gyroscope.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
• Almost all of these service disruptions have resulted from a failing gyroscope, a device that controls the direction in which the telescope is pointed and measures its turning rate.
  — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024