Pendant

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Fixed hanging ornament, resembling an elongated boss suspended from Perpendicular fan-vaulting, Jacobean ceilings, posts of timber roof-trusses, staircase newels, or at the mitring of barge-boards at the apex of a gable. It often resembles an inverted finial.

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Not to be confused with pendent or pennant.

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:

• Ornamentation
• Identification (i.e., religious symbols, sexual symbols, symbols of rock bands)
• Protection (i.e., amulets, religious symbols)
• Self-affirmation (i.e., initials, names)
• Ostentation (i.e., jewels).
• Award (i.e., Scouting Ireland Chief Scout's Award, Order of CúChulainn)

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

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.

See also

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - hængelampe, øresmykke, hængende ornament

2.
adj. - hængende, fremspringende, hældende

Nederlands (Dutch)
hangertje, tegenhanger, complementair werk (b.v. literatuur), ring en ketting van zakhorloge, hangende versiering, vaantje, schinkel (op schip), (neer-/over) hangend, nog bezig

Français (French)
1.
n. - pendentif, pendeloque, lustre

2.
adj. - suspendu, accroché, qui dépasse, qui avance, en surplomb, en souffrance, en instance

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Gegenstück

2.
adj. - herabhängend

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κρεμαστό κόσμημα, παντατίφ, κρεμαστό σκεύος, μπρελόκ
adj. - (επι)κρεμάμενος, εκκρεμής

Italiano (Italian)
ciondolo, pendente

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pendente (m), lustre (m), flâmula (f), coroa de mastro (f) (Náut.)
adj. - pendente

Русский (Russian)
подвеска, брелок, люстра

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - cosa que cuelga o que está pendiente de otra, colgante, arete, zarcillo, cadena, medallón, lámpara que cuelga

2.
adj. - que pende, que cuelga

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hängsmycke, hänglampa, prisma, nedhängande slutsten, hangare, skänkling (sjö.), pendang, motstycke
adj. - (ned)hängande, överhängande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 下垂物, 挂件, 垂饰, 悬吊装置

2. 下垂物的, 垂饰的, 悬吊装置的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
adj. - 下垂物的, 垂飾的, 懸吊裝置的

2.
n. - 下垂物, 挂件, 垂飾, 懸吊裝置

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 매달려 있는 것, (그림 따위의)한 쌍의 한쪽, 시계줄

2.
adj. - 드리운, 쑥 내민, 미결의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ペンダント, 三角旗

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) قلادة للعنق, ثريه, حلقه ساعه الجيب (صفه) معلق, متدل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תליון, קישוט תלוי, דגל‬
adj. - ‮תלוי‬

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