horizontal pendulum
noun
An approximately horizontal rod having a heavy weight at one end and pivoted at the other so that it can swing freely in an approximately horizontal plane, and usually supported by a thread or wire passing from the weighted end to a fixed point above the pivot.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in William Kenrick (d. 1779), writer and translator.
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