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Foucault pendulum

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A simple pendulum suspended from a long wire and set into motion along a meridian. The plane of motion appears to turn clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, demonstrating the axial rotation of the earth.

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  • noun Foucault's pendulum

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  • noun pendulum with a long wire; can swing in any direction; the change in the swing plane demonstrates the earth's rotation

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Jean Bernard Léon Foucault.]

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