different between bombardier vs gyroscopic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French bombarder (“a stone throwing engine”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?m.b??d??/, enPR: bäm'b?r-d?r?
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?m.b??d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

bombardier (plural bombardiers)

1. (Canada, US) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
2. (Canada, Britain) A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
   • Wikipedia: Bombardier (Bdr) and Lance Bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are British Army ranks used in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery instead of (respectively) Corporal and Lance Corporal. In the Canadian Forces, the Artillery Branch uses the ranks of Master Bombardier and Bombardier instead of Master Corporal and Corporal.
3. An artilleryman; a gunner.
4. (entomology) A bombardier beetle.

Derived terms

• lance bombardier
• master bombardier
• bombardier beetle

Related terms

• bombard
• bomb
• bomber

Translations

References

• “bombardier” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

French

Etymology

From bombarder +? -ier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.ba?.dje/

Noun

bombardier m (plural bombardiers)

1. (archaic) artilleryman, bombardier
2. (aircraft) bomber

Further reading

• “bombardier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

bombardier

1. singular imperative of bombardieren

Romanian

Etymology

From French bombardier

Noun

bombardier n (plural bombardiere)

1. bomber

Declension

English

Etymology

From gyroscope +? -ic

Adjective

gyroscopic (comparative more gyroscopic, superlative most gyroscopic)

1. Pertaining to, by means of, or in the manner of a gyroscope.
   • 1990 Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II Charles W McArthur: Publisher American Mathematical Society: ?ISBN P142. "The bombardier then checked the gyroscopic stabilization of the bombsight and clutched in the electrical motor."

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