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Foucault pendulum

Fou·cault pen·du·lum (plural Fou·cault pen·du·lums)


noun 
Definition:
 
pendulum showing earth's rotation: a heavy free-swinging pendulum suspended by a long thin wire, whose plane of motion appears to change as Earth rotates

[Mid-19th century. After Jean-Bernard Léon Foucault]
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