To stop or slow rotation.

The process of despinning.

present participle of despine

To remove the spines from a plant.

simple past tense and past participle of despine

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despine

present participle of despin

The removal of spin from an object

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despin

(astronautics) A method of reducing the rotation rate of a rapidly-spinning spacecraft by unreeling a pair of weights from the spinning spacecraft, greatly increasing the spacecraft's moment of inertia and transferring most of the spacecraft's angular momentum to the weights.