pendulum

Etymology
Borrowed from the neuter of.

Pronunciation

 * US (some regions):
 * US (some regions):

Noun
(See usage notes.)


 * 1)  A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.
 * 2)  The tendency of a situation to oscillate (between two extremes).
 * 3) A lamp, etc. suspended from a ceiling.
 * 4) A watch's guard-ring by which it is attached to a chain.
 * 1) A watch's guard-ring by which it is attached to a chain.

Usage notes

 * The plural form is significantly rarer than ; see etymology at  for details. However,  is occasionally used in physics.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نُوَاس, رَقَّاص, بَنْدُول
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: pendulu
 * Belarusian: ма́ятнік
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: pendolo
 * Estonian: pendel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: péndulo
 * Georgian: ქანქარა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, दोलक,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: pendúll, dingull, hengill,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: маятник
 * Khmer: បណ្ដូន,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: маятник
 * Lao: ໝາກກະໂຕ້ນ
 * Latin: pendulum
 * Latvian: svārsts
 * Lithuanian: švytuoklė, svyruoklė
 * Macedonian: нишало
 * Malay: bandul
 * Maori: tārere
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠭᠦᠵᠢᠩ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кла́тно
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kyvadlo
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: раққосак, ованг
 * Thai: ลูกตุ้ม
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: maýatnik
 * Ukrainian: ма́ятник,
 * Uyghur: ماياتنىك
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, con lắc
 * Volapük: