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PENDULUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pendulum" is a kind of...):
apparatus; setup (equipment designed to serve a specific function)
Meronyms (parts of "pendulum"):
bob (a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pendulum"):
Foucault pendulum (pendulum with a long wire; can swing in any direction; the change in the swing plane demonstrates the earth's rotation)
metronome (clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music)
compound pendulum; physical pendulum (pendulum consisting of an actual object allowed to rotate freely around a horizontal axis)
simple pendulum (a hypothetical pendulum suspended by a weightless frictionless thread of constant length)
