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Definition :

A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions or for suspending anything as a barometer ships compass chronometer etc so that it will remain plumb or level when its support is tipped as by the rolling of a ship It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first