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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 gim·bal /ˈgɪmbəl, ˈʤɪm-/
 萬向節

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 gimbal
 方向支架

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gim·bal or Gim·bals, n.  A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's 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.
 Gimbal joint Mach., a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal.
 Gimbal ring, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.