Pendant

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Spanish pendant at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Indonesia Bull Pendant and other pendants (100 B.C-A.D. 300)

A pendant (from Old French) is a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, when the ensemble may be known as a "pendant necklace". A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. In modern French "pendant" is the gerund form of “hanging” (also meaning “during”). Pendants can have several functions, which may be combined:

The many specialized types of pendants include lockets which open, often to reveal an image, and pendilia, which hang from larger objects of metalwork.

[edit] 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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