gyro 
1. a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread • Hypernyms: sandwich • Part Meronyms: pita, pocket bread 2. rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction • Syn: gyroscope • Derivationally related forms: gyroscopic (for: gyroscope) • Hypernyms: rotating mechanism • Part Holonyms: gyrocompass, gyrostabilizer, gyrostabiliser
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