Pendant (disambiguation)

This article describes the uses of the word pendant as a noun. For uses of the related word Pendent, which is an adjective meaning hanging, dangling, or suspended and which is often mistakenly used in its place, see that article.

Pendant can mean:

• Pendant, loose-hanging jewelry
• 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 pendant light is 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. One such aesthetic object is a pendant necklace.
• A Roof pendant is a large isolated mass of sedimentary or metasedimentary rock that survives within a mass of intrusive igneous rock.

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