gyro
pronunciation
How to pronounce gyro in British English:
UK ['dʒaɪrəʊ]
How to pronounce gyro in American English:
US ['dʒaɪroʊ]
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- Noun:
- a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread
- rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
Word Origin
- gyro (n.)
- sandwich made from roasted lamb, 1971, originally the meat itself, as roasted on a rotating spit, from Modern Greek gyros "a circle" (see gyre (n.)). Mistaken in English for a plural and shorn of its -s.
Example
- 1. The device also contains an accelerometer and a gyro sensor for full motion controls .