physical pendulum

1. 1.

   pendulum consisting of an actual object allowed to rotate freely around a horizontal axis

   Synonymscompound pendulum

   Broaderpendulum

   Narrowerballistic pendulumclock pendulum

Questions about physical pendulum

What does physical pendulum mean?

physical pendulum means "pendulum consisting of an actual object allowed to rotate freely around a horizontal axis".

What is another word for physical pendulum?

Close synonyms include compound pendulum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is physical pendulum a common word?

physical 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.