gyrostatic

British

/ ˌdʒaɪrəʊˈstætɪk /

adjective

of or concerned with the gyroscope or with gyrostatics

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gyrostatically adverb

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A remark made in § 96 should be borne in mind by all who essay to solve gyrostatic problems.

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The system is said by Thomson and Tait in such a case to be under gyrostatic domination.

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Reference has been made to the treatment of "gyrostatic domination" in "Thomson and Tait."

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The earth's precessional motion is a gyrostatic effect due to the differential attraction of the sun, which tends to bring the plane of the equator into coincidence with the ecliptic, and so alters the direction of the axis of rotation.

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Another example of the gyrostatic domination discussed in "Thomson and Tait" is given in the very remarkable address entitled "A Kinetic Theory of Matter," which Sir William Thomson delivered to Section A of the British Association at Montreal, in 1884.

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