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Season 251 - Day 8 of 14

Physics

While traditional versions of this instrument rely on a spinning wheel to maintain orientation, modern smartphones utilize microscopic, vibrating silicon structures that exploit the Coriolis force to achieve the same result.
Deriving its prefix from the Greek word for a circle or rotation, which device is paired with an accelerometer in inertial measurement units to detect rotational motion?

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