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Pendulum vs J - What's the difference?

pendulum | j |

As a noun pendulum

is a body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.

As a letter j is

the tenth letter of the.

As a symbol j is

the symbol for joule, the unit of work or energy in the international system of units.

pendulum

English

(wikipedia pendulum)

Noun

(en-noun) (See usage notes.)
  • A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.

    • Usage notes

    The plural form (pendula) is significantly rarer than (pendulums); see etymology at pendula for details. However, pendula is occasionally used in physics.

    Related terms

    * * pendant

    See also

    * simple harmonic motion ----

    j

    Translingual

    (wikipedia j)

    Letter

  • The tenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (Palatal approximant) (head)
  • palatal approximant
  • one
    • ?j
  • :: one ounce
  • (label) (l)

    • See also

    (Latn-script) {{Letter , page=J , NATO=Juliet , Morse=·––– , Character=J0 , Braille=?}} Image:Latin J.png, Capital and lowercase versions of J , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter J.png, Uppercase and lowercase J in Fraktur ----