Foucault's pendulum
nounEtymology
From the name of the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault.
- derived from physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
Definitions
A pendulum on a long wire, free to move in any direction
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.
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