PENDULUM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)