Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

compound pendulum

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English

Syllables: com-pound pen-du-lum
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any swinging rigid body free to rotate about a fixed horizontal axis, distinguished from the ideal simple pendulum.

Inflected Forms

compound pendulums (plural)

Synonyms

physical pendulum

Questions

What does compound pendulum mean?: Any swinging rigid body free to rotate about a fixed horizontal axis, distinguished from the ideal simple pendulum.

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