BALLISTIC PENDULUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A physical pendulum consisting of a large mass suspended from a rod; when it is struck by a projectile its displacement is used to measure the projectile's velocity

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("ballistic pendulum" is a kind of...):

compound pendulum; physical pendulum (pendulum consisting of an actual object allowed to rotate freely around a horizontal axis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ballistic pendulum"):

gun pendulum (a ballistic pendulum consisting of a suspended gun; the velocity of a projectile in the bore of a gun can be measured by the recoil when the gun is discharged)

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