A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.

(transitive) To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals. / (transitive, aerospace) To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments.

plural of gimbal

present participle of gimbal

simple past tense and past participle of gimbal

simple past tense and past participle of gimbal

present participle of gimbal

The loss of one degree of freedom in the three-dimensional rotational movement of a three-gimbal mechanism, which occurs when the axes of two of the three gimbals are driven into a parallel configuration, so that the system's rotational movement becomes two-dimensional (and necessarily remains so until an appropriate force is applied); the equivalent situation in a simulation of rotational movement, when the mathematical model uses Euler angles (representing pitch, yaw and roll) or their equivalent.

plural of gimbal lock