Foucault's pendulum
Meanings
noun
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
From the name of the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault.
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