antirolling gyroscope

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antirolling gyroscope [¦an·tē¦rōl·iŋ ′jī·rə‚skōp]

(naval architecture)

A very large gyroscope having a vertical axis and mounted in a ship so that the axis can be tipped fore and aft by an electric motor, resulting in the gyroscope's exerting a large torque on the ship about the fore-and-aft axis.

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