compensated pendulum
compensated pendulum
[′käm·pən‚sād·əd ′pen·jə·ləm] (design engineering)
A pendulum made of two materials with different coefficients of expansion so that the distance between the point of suspension and center of oscillation remains nearly constant when the temperature changes.
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