0 a device with a circular part that turns around a fixed central axis (= straight line), used for keeping a compass, camera, or other piece of equipment in position when it is inside a moving vehicle or object:
In a spacecraft, rocket engines are usually mounted on a pair of gimbals.
By carefully aligning the gimbal, there was a star visible in the eyepiece.
Gimbal technology is used in steadicams to eliminate camera shake when filming.
We used a gimbal-mounted mirror to reflect starlight into our telescope.
In order to support scanning, the instrument came in two parts, the optics unit on a two-axis gimbal and a fixed electronics unit.
A second was gimbal mounted in the front of the hull.
His contribution to autogyro design included the offset gimbal rotor head.
The burner unit may be mounted on a gimbal to enable the pilot to aim the flame and avoid overheating the envelope fabric.
