Pendant - Other Meanings

Other Meanings

  • A teach pendant is a portable control device used in industrial robotics.
  • A cable pendant is one of a series of cables that is horizontally suspended across a flight deck of aircraft carriers for aircraft to land by catching with tailhook.
  • A nautical pendant is a length of cable or rope, usually of a short length, that has eyes or fittings, or both, at the ends for attachment to vessels and bollards or buoys.
  • A pendant is a common item used in hypnosis.
  • Pendant vertex, a vertex whose neighbourhood contains exactly one vertex
  • A hanging light fitting.
  • Pendant objects are two or more aesthetic objects (usually art pieces such as paintings or sculptures) made to be perceived as a set.


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