gyroscope

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌskəʊp/
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• General-American: /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹəˌskoʊp/
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• CMU ARPABET: JH AY1 R AH0 S K OW2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gew-der. Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros)lbor. French gyro- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. French -scope French gyroscopebor. English gyroscope Borrowed from French gyroscope, coined in 1852 by physicist Leon Foucault, equivalent to gyro- + -scope, from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle”) and σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”).

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: جَيْرُوسْكُوب (jayrūskūb) — apparatus
• Catalan: giroscopi — apparatus
• Chinese Cantonese: 陀螺儀 /陀螺仪 — apparatus
• Chinese Mandarin: 陀螺儀 /陀螺仪 (tuóluóyí) — apparatus
• Chinese Mandarin: 迴轉儀 /回转仪 (huízhuǎnyí) — apparatus
• Czech: gyroskop — apparatus
• Danish: gyroskop — apparatus
• Dutch: gyroscoop — apparatus
• Finnish: gyroskooppi — apparatus
• French: gyroscope — apparatus
• Galician: xiroscopio — apparatus
• German: Gyroskop — apparatus
• Greek: γυροσκόπιο (gyroskópio) — apparatus
• Hungarian: giroszkóp — apparatus
• Icelandic: snúður — apparatus
• Icelandic: snúðvísir — apparatus
• Indonesian: giroskop — apparatus
• Interlingua: gyroscopio — apparatus
• Italian: giroscopio — apparatus
• Japanese: ジャイロスコープ (jairosukōpu) — apparatus
• Korean: 자이로스코프 (jairoseukopeu) — apparatus
• Malay: gegasing — apparatus
• Malay: giroskop — apparatus
• Polish: żyroskop — apparatus
• Portuguese: giroscópio — apparatus
• Russian: гироско́п (giroskóp) — apparatus
• Slovene: žiroskop — apparatus
• Spanish: giroscopio — apparatus
• Swedish: gyroskop — apparatus
• Tagalog: halintigal — apparatus
• Tamil: சுழல்காட்டி (cuḻalkāṭṭi) — apparatus
• Turkish: jiroskop — apparatus