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Alteration of gemel, from Old French gemel, jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus.
gimbal (plural gimbals)
- A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.
1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in Typhoon[1]:
The lamp wriggled in its gimbals, the barometer swung in circles, the table altered its slant every moment […]
- 1934, A. E. W. Mason, “The Chronometer,” Chapter II, in Dilemmas, London: Hodder & Stoughton,[2]
- He lifted the chronometer off the gimbals on which it was slung in the mahogany case and showed the number engraved upon the bottom.
device for suspending something
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: кардан (bg) m (kardan)
- Chinese:
- Czech: Kardanův závěs m
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: cardanische ophanging f
- Esperanto: kardano
- Finnish: gimbaali (fi), vakaaja (fi)
- French: cardan (fr) m, suspension à la Cardan f
- German: Kardan-Aufhängung f, Kardanaufhängung f
- Greek: γκίμπαλ (el) n (gkímpal)
- Hebrew: מִתְלַיִם (he) m pl (mitlayim)
- Indonesian: gimbal (id)
- Italian: sospensione cardanica f
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
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- Polish: zawieszenie Cardana n, kardan (pl) m
- Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: cardán (es) m
gimbal (third-person singular simple present gimbals, present participle (US) gimbaling or (UK) gimballing, simple past and past participle (US) gimbaled or (UK) gimballed)
- (transitive) To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals.
- 1918, Richard Dehan (Clotilde Graves), That Which Hath Wings, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter 32,[3]
- […] he conned his course in masterly fashion by aid of the roller-map, protected by its transparent, rainproof casing, or the compass, clock, altimeter, and other instruments gimballed in the wooden frame in front of the pilot’s seat.
- 1918, Richard Dehan (Clotilde Graves), That Which Hath Wings, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter 32,[3]
- (transitive, aerospace) To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments.[1]
- (intransitive) To swivel, move on an axis.
- ^ Joseph A. Angelo, Jr., The Dictionary of Space Technology, NY: Facts On File, 1982, p. 89.
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈɡimbal/ [ˈɡim.bal]
- Rhymes: -imbal
- Syllabification: gim‧bal
Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦶꦩ꧀ꦧꦭ꧀ (gimbal, “unkempt”), from Old Javanese gimbal (“unkemptness”).
gimbal (comparative lebih gimbal, superlative paling gimbal)
gimbal (plural gimbal-gimbal)
- (cooking) shrimp fried with flour
- the part of the roof that extends outward from the building, serving as a protector for the exterior walls of the house to prevent them from getting wet from rain
Borrowed from English gimbal, alteration of gemel, from Old French gemel, jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus.
gimbal (plural gimbal-gimbal)
- gimbal (device for suspending something)
- “gimbal”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɡimˈbal/ [ɡ̠ɪmˈbal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: gim‧bal
- Homophone: Guimbal
gimbál (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜋ᜔ᜊᜎ᜔)
- great noise; resounding noise
- great confusion; great disturbance (caused by loud sounds or noises)
- kettledrum
gimbál (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜋ᜔ᜊᜎ᜔)