Noun: gimbal
| Singular | gimbal |
| Plural | gimbals |
Sample Sentences
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The lamp wriggled in its gimbals, the barometer swung in circles, the table altered its slant every moment […] [1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in Typhoon:]
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1934, A. E. W. Mason, “The Chronometer,” Chapter II, in Dilemmas, London: Hodder & Stoughton,
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He lifted the chronometer off the gimbals on which it was slung in the mahogany case and showed the number engraved upon the bottom.
Nouns inflected like gimbal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Alteration of gemel, from Old French gemel, jumel (“twin”) (French jumeau), from Latin gemellus. See: Latin Nouns '
gemellus'.
Verbs referencing "gimbal"
Spanish Nouns
gemelo, Finnish Nouns
gimbaali.