pendulum

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Neuter of Latin pendulus, "hanging".

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɛnʤələm/, SAMPA: /"pEndZ@l@m/

Noun

pendulum (plural pendulums or pendula) (See usage notes.)

1. A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.

Usage notes

The plural form pendula is significantly rarer than pendulums; see etymology at pendula for details. However, pendula is widely used in physics.

Translations

body suspended from a fixed support

Armenian: ճոճանակ (hy) (čočanak) Chinese: Mandarin: 鐘擺 (zh), 钟摆 (zh) (zhōngbǎi), 擺 (zh) (bǎi), 摆 (zh) (bǎi), 擺鐘 (zh), 摆钟 (zh) (bǎizhōng) Czech: kyvadlo (cs) n. Esperanto: pendolo (eo) Finnish: heiluri (fi) French: pendule (fr) m. German: Pendel (de) n. Greek: εκκρεμές (el) (ekkremés) n. Hungarian: inga (hu) Icelandic: pendúll m., dingull m., hengill m., kólfur m. Japanese: 振り子 (ja) (ふりこ, furiko)

Norwegian: pendel (no) m. Polish: wahadło (pl) n. Portuguese: pêndulo (pt) m. Russian: маятник (ru) (májatnik) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: клатно (sh) n. Roman: klatno (sh) n. Slovak: kyvadlo (sk) n. Spanish: péndulo (es) m. Swedish: pendel (sv) c. Turkish: sarkaç (tr), rakkas (tr), pandül (tr) Volapük: pendül (vo)

Related terms

• Foucault’s pendulum
• pendant

See also

• simple harmonic motion

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Latin

Adjective

pendulum

1. nominative neuter singular of pendulus
2. accusative masculine singular of pendulus
3. accusative neuter singular of pendulus
4. vocative neuter singular of pendulus