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gyro
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gyro has 2 senses
- gyro(n = noun.food) Array - a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread; Array has parts: pita, pocket bread
- gyro(n = noun.artifact) gyroscope - rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction; Array is a part of gyrocompass, gyrostabiliser, gyrostabilizer
is a kind of sandwich
is a kind of rotating mechanism
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