English-French translations for pendulum

• pendule
  Nous avons étés exilés par le hasard géographique d'un océan, et par le hasard historique d'un pendule qui nous rapproche et nous éloigne en fonction des circonstances. We were exiled by the geographical chance of an ocean, and the historical chance of a pendulum that brings us together and distances us according to circumstances.
• balancier

Definition of pendulum

• 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
• A watch's guard-ring by which it is attached to a chain

Related words

• pendulum clock
• pendulum bob
• gridiron pendulum
• Foucault's pendulum
• simple pendulum
• Foucault pendulum
• compound pendulum