Spinning top, the Glossary
A spinning top, or simply a top, is a toy with a squat body and a sharp point at the bottom, designed to be spun on its vertical axis, balancing on the tip due to the gyroscopic effect.[1]
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98 relations: /Film, Angular momentum, Armenia, Bangladesh, Battling Tops, Bauernroulette, Beigoma, Beyblade, Bow drill, Cambridge University Press, Celt (tool), Center of mass, Ceramic, Christopher Nolan, Classical antiquity, Color triangle, COVID-19 pandemic, Culture of Armenia, Cyclosa turbinata, Czech literature, Diabolo, Dice, Divination, Dover Publications, Drawing pin, Dreidel, Fidget spinner, ForeverSpin, Franz Kafka, Friction, Gambling, Game, Gasing pangkah, Gee-haw whammy diddle, Gyroscope, Hanukkah, Hmong customs and culture, Hmong people, Inception, India, James Clerk Maxwell, James David Forbes, Japan, Jean Shepherd, Jewish holidays, Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022, Knucklebones, Lagrange, Euler, and Kovalevskaya tops, Leonardo DiCaprio, Levitron, ... Expand index (48 more) »
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/Film
/Film, also spelled Slashfilm, is a blog that covers movie news, reviews, interviews, and trailers.
Angular momentum
Angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum.
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Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
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Battling Tops
Battling Tops is a children's game invented by Eddy Goldfarb and first manufactured by Ideal in 1968. Spinning top and Battling Tops are spinning tops.
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Bauernroulette
Bauernroulette is a game that was apparently invented in Germany, where several companies sell it. Spinning top and Bauernroulette are spinning tops and wooden toys.
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Beigoma
The beigoma (Japanese: ベーゴマ) is a traditional Japanese top that is approximately 3 cm in diameter and often decorated with kanji. Spinning top and beigoma are spinning tops and traditional toys.
Beyblade
is a line of spinning-top toys originally developed by Takara, first released in Japan in July 1999, along with a related manga series. Spinning top and Beyblade are spinning tops.
Bow drill
A bow drill is a simple hand-operated type of tool, consisting of a rod (the spindle or drill shaft) that is set in rapid rotary motion by means of a cord wrapped around it, kept taut by a bow which is pushed back and forth with one hand.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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In archaeology, a celt is a long, thin, prehistoric, stone or bronze tool similar to an adze, hoe, or axe.
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Center of mass
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space (sometimes referred to as the barycenter or balance point) is the unique point at any given time where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero.
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Ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.
Christopher Nolan
Sir Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker.
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Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Color triangle
A color triangle is an arrangement of colors within a triangle, based on the additive or subtractive combination of three primary colors at its corners.
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COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Culture of Armenia
The culture of Armenia encompasses many elements that are based on the geography, literature, architecture, dance, and music of the Armenian people.
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Cyclosa turbinata
Cyclosa turbinata is a species of orb weaver belonging to the family of spiders known as Araneidae.
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Czech literature
Czech literature can refer to literature written in Czech, in the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia, earlier the Lands of the Bohemian Crown), or by Czech people.
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Diabolo
The diabolo (commonly misspelled diablo) is a juggling or circus prop consisting of an axle and two cups (hourglass/egg timer shaped) or discs derived from the Chinese yo-yo. Spinning top and diabolo are traditional toys.
Dice
Dice (die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. Spinning top and dice are game equipment.
Divination
Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.
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Dover Publications
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker.
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Drawing pin
A drawing pin (in British English) or tack (in North American English), also called a push-pin, is a short, small pin or nail with a flat, broad head that can be pressed into place with pressure from the thumb, often used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.
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Dreidel
A dreidel, also dreidle or dreidl, (dreydl, plural: dreydlech; sevivon) is a four-sided spinning top, played during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Spinning top and dreidel are spinning tops, traditional toys and wooden toys.
Fidget spinner
A fidget spinner is a toy that consists of a ball bearing in the center of a multi-lobed (typically three-lobed) flat structure made from metal or plastic with metal weights in the lobes, designed to spin around its central axis.
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ForeverSpin
ForeverSpin (stylized as foreverspin) is a Canadian company that manufactures metal spinning tops, which have a similar appearance to the top seen in the 2010 film Inception. Spinning top and ForeverSpin are spinning tops.
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague.
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Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
Gambling
Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted.
Game
A game is a structured type of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool.
Gasing pangkah
Gasing pangkah is a competitive Malay game of spinning tops in which two or more players compete to strike each other's top out of a circle or to make it fall over and stop spinning. Spinning top and Gasing pangkah are spinning tops.
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Gee-haw whammy diddle
A gee-haw whammy diddle is a mechanical toy consisting of two wooden sticks. Spinning top and gee-haw whammy diddle are traditional toys and wooden toys.
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Gyroscope
A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος gŷros, "round" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining orientation and angular velocity.
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Hanukkah
Hanukkah (Ḥănukkā) is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE.
Hmong customs and culture
The Hmong people are an ethnic group currently native to several countries, believed to have come from the Yangtze river basin area in southern China.
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Hmong people
The Hmong people (RPA: Hmoob, Nyiakeng Puachue:, Pahawh Hmong) are an indigenous group in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
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Inception
Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist with broad interests who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.
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James David Forbes
James David Forbes (1809–1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jean Shepherd
Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor.
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Jewish holidays
Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (Good Days, or singular יום טוב, in transliterated Hebrew), are holidays observed by Jews throughout the Hebrew calendar.
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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 was the 20th edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest, organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Public Television Company of Armenia (AMPTV).
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Knucklebones
Knucklebones, also known as scatter jacks, snobs, astragaloi (singular: astragalus), tali, dibs, fivestones, jacks, jackstones, or jinks, among many other names, is a game of dexterity played with a number of small objects that are thrown up, caught, and manipulated in various manners. Spinning top and Knucklebones are traditional toys.
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Lagrange, Euler, and Kovalevskaya tops
In classical mechanics, the rotation of a rigid body such as a spinning top under the influence of gravity is not, in general, an integrable problem. Spinning top and Lagrange, Euler, and Kovalevskaya tops are spinning tops.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer.
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Levitron
Levitron is a brand of levitating toys and gifts in science and educational markets marketed by Creative Gifts Inc. Spinning top and Levitron are spinning tops.
Magnetic field
A magnetic field (sometimes called B-field) is a physical field that describes the magnetic influence on moving electric charges, electric currents, and magnetic materials.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Maple
Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.
A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.
Moment of inertia
The moment of inertia, otherwise known as the mass moment of inertia, angular/rotational mass, second moment of mass, or most accurately, rotational inertia, of a rigid body is a quantity that determines the torque needed for a desired angular acceleration about a rotational axis, akin to how mass determines the force needed for a desired acceleration.
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Momentum
In Newtonian mechanics, momentum (momenta or momentums; more specifically linear momentum or translational momentum) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Pambaram
Pambaram, also called the Lattu, Latim, Bhawra, Buguri, or Bongaram, is a traditional throwing top used mainly in India and Bangladesh. Spinning top and Pambaram are spinning tops.
Plastic
Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient.
Popular Science
Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.
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Potter's wheel
In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware.
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Precession
Precession is a change in the orientation of the rotational axis of a rotating body.
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Prophecy
In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a prophet) by a supernatural entity.
Randomness
In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of definite pattern or predictability in information.
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Rattleback
A rattleback is a semi-ellipsoidal top which will rotate on its axis in a preferred direction. Spinning top and rattleback are spinning tops, traditional toys and wooden toys.
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Rigid body dynamics
In the physical science of dynamics, rigid-body dynamics studies the movement of systems of interconnected bodies under the action of external forces.
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Ritual
A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects.
Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Rope
A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibres, or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form.
Rotation
Rotation or rotational motion is the circular movement of an object around a central line, known as axis of rotation.
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.
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Ruby
Ruby is a pinkish red to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide).
Samara (fruit)
A samara is a winged achene, a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall.
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Schocken Books
Schocken Books is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that specializes in Jewish literary works.
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Shades of green
Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation or intensity) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.
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Spin Fighters
Spin Fighters were die-cast metal top toys that were manufactured by Bandai in China from 1993 to 1997. Spinning top and Spin Fighters are spinning tops.
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Spindle whorl
A spindle whorl is a weighted object fitted to a spindle to help maintain the spindle's speed of rotation while spinning yarn.
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Teetotum
A teetotum (or T-totum) is a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games. Spinning top and teetotum are spinning tops.
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all of Kafka's short stories.
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The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex.
The Top (album)
The Top is the fifth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 4 May 1984 by Fiction Records.
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The Top (short story)
“The Top” (German: “Der Kreisel”) is a short story by Franz Kafka, written sometime between 1917 and 1923.
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Tippe top
A tippe top is a kind of top that when spun, will spontaneously invert itself to spin on its narrow stem. Spinning top and tippe top are spinning tops.
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Torque
In physics and mechanics, torque is the rotational analogue of linear force.
Toy
A toy or plaything is an object that is used primarily to provide entertainment.
Toys and games in ancient Rome
The ancient Romans had a variety of toys and games.
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Trompo
A trompo is a top which is spun by winding a length of string around the body, and launching it so that lands spinning on its point. Spinning top and trompo are spinning tops, traditional toys and wooden toys.
Tungsten carbide
Tungsten carbide (chemical formula: WC) is a chemical compound (specifically, a carbide) containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms.
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Twine
Twine is a strong thread, light string or cord composed of string two or more thinner strands twisted, and then twisted together (plied).
Ultramarine
Ultramarine is a deep blue color pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder.
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Vermilion
Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide).
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Whip
A whip is a blunt weapon or implement used in a striking motion to create sound or pain.
Whirligig
A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one part that spins or whirls. Spinning top and whirligig are traditional toys.
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Wizzzer
The Wizzzer or Wiz-z-zer is a gyrostat toy introduced by Mattel Toymakers in 1969, and introduced the spinning top to modern children. Spinning top and Wizzzer are spinning tops.
Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
Yerevan
Yerevan (Երևան; sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.
Yo-yo
A yo-yo (also spelled yoyo) is a toy consisting of an axle connected to two disks, and a string looped around the axle, similar to a spool. Spinning top and yo-yo are traditional toys and wooden toys.
See also
Game equipment
- Casino chip
- Checkerboard
- Chess equipment
- Cue sports equipment
- Dice
- Dominoes
- Gamemaster's screen
- Games table desk
- Go equipment
- Juggling ball
- Mahjong tiles
- Marble (toy)
- Piecepack
- Spinning top
- Sports equipment
- Triominoes
- Video game hardware
Spinning tops
- Bamboo-copter
- Battle Strikers
- Battling Tops
- Bauernroulette
- Beigoma
- Beyblade
- Dreidel
- Euler's Disk
- ForeverSpin
- Gasing pangkah
- Lagrange, Euler, and Kovalevskaya tops
- Levitron
- Mei-hwa Spinning Top Museum
- Paengi Chigi
- Pambaram
- Psi wheel
- Rattleback
- Spin Fighters
- Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation
- Spinja
- Spinning top
- Teetotum
- Tippe top
- Trompo
- Wizzzer
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_top
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