Usually means: Rotating pendulum demonstrating Earth's rotation.
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  6. Foucault: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  9. Foucault (Deleuze book), Foucault (Gilles Deleuze), Foucault (Merquior book), Foucault (crater), Foucault: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Foucault)

▸ noun:  A surname from French.
▸ noun:  Michel Foucault
▸ noun:  Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, French physicist (1819–1868)

Similar:
Fouillet, Fouche, Faucheux, Faubert, Fougere, Fouch, Faure, Foch, Fauch, Lafosse, more...

Opposite:
non-Foucauldian, traditionalist, essentialist.

Types:
post-structuralism, postmodernism, deconstructionism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, more...

Phrases:
Michel Foucault, Foucault pendulum, jean foucault, foucault currents, foucault michel, more...

Adjectives:
french, later, early, social, final, particular, young, recent, postmodern, cultural, poststructuralist



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Similar:
Fouillet, Fouche, Faucheux, Faubert, Fougere, Fouch, Faure, Foch, Fauch, Lafosse, more...

Opposite:
non-Foucauldian, traditionalist, essentialist.

Types:
post-structuralism, postmodernism, deconstructionism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, more...

Phrases:
Michel Foucault, Foucault pendulum, jean foucault, foucault currents, foucault michel, jean bernard leon foucault, Foucault current, foucault pendulums, jean bernard léon foucault, foucault grating, more...

Adjectives:
french, later, early, social, final, particular, young, recent, postmodern, cultural, poststructuralist



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