foucault pendulum

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   pendulum with a long wire; can swing in any direction; the change in the swing plane demonstrates the earth's rotation

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Questions about foucault pendulum

What does foucault pendulum mean?

foucault pendulum means "pendulum with a long wire; can swing in any direction; the change in the swing plane demonstrates the earth's rotation".

Is foucault pendulum a common word?

foucault pendulum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.