French Meaning of gimbals

Cardan

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Definitions and Meaning of gimbals in English

Webster

gimbals (n.)

A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.

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Cardan

A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that

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gimbaled => cardané, gimbal => cardan, gim => gin, gilttail => Gilttail, giltif => coupable,