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A pendant is a piece of jewellery.

Pendant may also refer to:

Ships and aircraft

• 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
• Pennant number, previously called a pendant number, a British Navy and Commonwealth system for classifying warships
• 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

The arts

• Pendant (art), paintings, sculptures, or other works of art intended as a pair
• Pendant (musician), Brian Leeds (born 1991), American electronic musician
• Pendant vault, a late Gothic architecture vault

Other uses

• Pendant bar, a fluvial landform
• Pendant group, a group of molecules attached to a backbone chain of a long molecule
• Pendant light, a type of light fixture
• Pendant vertex, a vertex whose neighbourhood contains exactly one vertex
• Roof pendant, in structural geology, a mass of country rock that projects downward into an igneous intrusion

See also

• Pendent (the adjectival form)

• Disambiguation pages