Foucault's pendulum
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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Foucault-rotz.gif/250px-Foucault-rotz.gif)
Etymology
[edit]From the name of the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault.
Noun
[edit]Foucault's pendulum (plural Foucault's pendulums)
- 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
[edit]pendulum free to move in any direction
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