simple pendulum
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Noun (1)
- a hypothetical pendulum suspended by a weightless frictionless thread of constant lengthType of pendulum
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Simple pendulum, Theoretical pendulum
an imaginary pendulum having no dimensions except length, and no weight except at the center of oscillation; in other words, a material point suspended by an ideal line.
From the entry Pendulum.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54