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
Pendants (art), paintings, sculptures or other works of art intended as a pair
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 group, a group of molecules attached to a backbone chain of a long molecule
Pendant, a type of loose-hanging jewelry
Pennon (or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag commonly flown by ships at sea:
- Pennant (commissioning), the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission
- Broad pennant, flown from the masthead of a Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board
- Pennant (church), flown by navies during services on board ships
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

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