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, 2018-03-17
  • However, in the 15 years since then, three of the six gyroscopes have failed.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2024-06-04
  • Click on the gyroscope icon, the drone will fly according to the gravity of the mobile phone.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 2021-04-06
  • To some in the Thrones fandom, the gyroscope is a harbinger of how the series will end.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 2018-06-27
  • As the gyroscope turns, the standing wave stays in place like a magnet compass needle pointing north.
    — New Atlas, 2 Dec. 2025
  • These smart swim goggles count your laps, pace, and even strokes per lap using a built in accelerometer and gyroscope.
    — Outside Online, 2022-05-27
  • 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, 2024-01-23
  • 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, 2022-07-18
  • Even the gyroscope of a compromised smartphone can pick up sounds even if the malware can't access its microphone.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 2020-06-12
  • The spacecrafts’ gyroscopes are small spinning wheels that work to rotate the telescope and keep it stable while observing.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 2018-10-12
  • What is missing is the gyroscope found in the original Siri Remote and was used for playing games.
    — Dwight Silverman, Forbes, 2021-06-07
  • Bolt’s gadgetry packs a light sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass and more, and its battery lasts for just over four hours of play.
    — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-11-29
  • 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, 2017-04-13
  • The gyroscope steadies the wearer’s hand by countering the motion, like a spinning top trying to keep upright.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 2024-10-30
  • 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, 2021-03-26
  • Launched in 1990, Hubble has had trouble with its gyroscopes before.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Seattle Times, 2018-10-08
  • 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, 2021-10-01
  • This taps into the accelerometer and gyroscope of the AirPods and the device it is connected to.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 2020-06-22
  • 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, 2017-06-19
  • During this nearly eight-day mission, the crew repaired Hubble’s gyroscopes and upgraded some systems.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Equipped with a smart AI chip and gyroscope, the orb hovers, flies, and returns to the user like a boomerang, providing countless hours of entertainment.
    — Mia Huelsbeck, PEOPLE, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Inertial sensors, gyroscopes, and accelerometers act like an inner ear to maintain balance and orientation.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • By measuring the rotation and acceleration of atoms, this new kind of gyroscope can sense motion with improved precision compared to conventional gyros flown on drones, airplanes, and satellites.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Instead of using accelerometers and gyroscopes, a quantum sensor measures rotation and acceleration at the atomic level.
    — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The setup comes with onboard sensors that track rider behavior through a gyroscope/accelerometer, which would then pass through a CAN Bus Interface and reach the rider through haptic feedback.
    — New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2026
  • For decades, the Pentagon’s fallback has been inertial navigation systems (INS), which use gyroscopes and accelerometers to track motion without external signals.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Housed at the Geodetic Observatory in Wettzell, Bavaria, the unique instrument delivered a level of precision 100 times greater than that of any previous ring laser or gyroscope.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Two companies, Vector Atomic and Honeywell Aerospace, worked together to develop and build an atomic gyroscope to undergo qualification for spaceflight.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Emcore manufactures navigation equipment such as gyroscopes and sensors used in commercial, industrial and defense applications, including autonomous navigation and weapons systems, according to its website.
    — Victor Loh, CNBC, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Many high-performing sensors like microphones and gyroscopes must remain on silicon because their physical performance depends on properties of silicon or on the submicrometer tolerances achieved only with traditional silicon micromachining.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018

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