Foucault's pendulum

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Foucault's pendulums 复数

释义与例句

n.
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    A pendulum on a long wire, free to move in any direction; the plane of its motion appears to turn (clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere) as the world turns beneath it.

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词源

From the name of the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault.

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