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compound pendulum
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Word History and Origins
Origin of compound pendulum1
First recorded in 1820–30
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Example Sentences
The formula may be easily verified in the case of the compound pendulum, or of the solid rolling down an incline.
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This includes the case of a compound pendulum in which the knife-edge is replaced by a cylindrical pin.
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He made many improvements in the mechanism of clocks, the greatest of which was the compound pendulum.
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The convertible compound pendulum had been conceived prior to its realization by Kater.
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During the century, however, the compound pendulum came to be preferred for absolute and relative determinations.
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