Foucault's pendulum

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Etymology

From the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault

Noun

Foucault's pendulum

1. a pendulum on a long wire, free to move in any direction; the plane of its motion appears to turn (clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere) as the world turns beneath it.

Translations

pendulum free to move in any direction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傅科擺 (cmn), 傅科摆 (cmn) (Fùkē bǎi)

• Czech: Foucaultovo kyvadlo (cs) n
• Finnish: Foucaultin heiluri (fi)
• French: pendule de Foucault (fr)

• German: Foucaultsches Pendel (de) n
• Hungarian: Foucault-inga (hu)
• Japanese: フーコーの振り子 (ja) (Fūkō no furiko)
• Russian: ма́ятник Фуко́ (ru) (májatnik Fukó)

See also

• Words From Foucault's Pendulum (a novel)