Pendant (disambiguation)
Pendant means something that is hanging, and may refer to:
- Arresting gear, which use deck pendant cables to rapidly decelerate an aircraft as it lands on an aircraft carrier
- Nautical pendant a length of cable or rope with eyes or fittings at the ends for attachment to vessels, bollards or buoys
- Pendant bar, a fluvial landform formed on the downstream side of a weathering-resistant protrusion
- Pendant light, a type of light fixture that hangs from the ceiling on a rope, chain, cable or rod
- Pendant vault, a late Gothic architecture vault in which large decorative pendants hang from the vault at a distance from the walls
- Pendant vertex, a vertex whose neighbourhood contains exactly one vertex
- Pendant, a type of loose-hanging jewelry
- Pennant number, previously called a pendant number, a British Navy and Commonwealth system for classifying warships
- Roof pendant, a large, isolated mass of sedimentary or meta-sedimentary rock that survives within a mass of intrusive igneous rock
- Teach pendant, a portable control device used to program industrial robots
See also
- Pendent (the adjectival form)
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