Pendant
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File:WLA lacma Indonesia Bird Pendant ca 100 BC-AD 300.jpg
Indonesia Bull Pendant and other pendants (100 B.C-A.D. 300)
A pendant (from Old French) is a hanging object, generally attached to a necklace or an earring. In modern French this is the gerund form of “hanging” (also meaning “during”). Pendants can have several functions:
- 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)
These purposes can be combined (i.e. a richly jewelled symbol).
[edit] Other meanings
File:Ruby Eye Pendant.jpg
Ruby Eye Pendant from an ancient civilisation in Mesopotamia. Probably it was used to protect evil eyes.
- 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.
- Pendants is a type of jewelry are often equipped with precious or semi precious stones. In ancient times kings and queens used to embrace there personality with multi stone Pendants studded in gold, silver and bronze.
- Pendant vertex, a vertex whose neighbourhood contains exactly one vertex
- A hanging light fitting.
- Pendant paintings are two paintings painted by a single author that are meant to go together.
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fr:Ferrets it:pendant nl:Hanger ja:ペンダント ru:Подвеска (украшение) simple:Pendant sv:Pendang
