A pedal (from the Latin '' pes'' ''pedis'', "foot") is a

lever A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or ''fulcrum''. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point on itself. On the basis of the locations of fulcrum, load and effort, the lever is div ...

designed to be operated by foot and may refer to:

Computers and other equipment

Footmouse A footmouse (or foot mouse) is a type of computer mouse that gives the users the ability to move the cursor and click the mouse buttons with their feet. It is primarily used by users with disabilities or with high-back or neck problems. It is al ...

, a foot-operated computer mouse * In

medical transcription Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession dealing with the process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners. Medical reports can be vo ...

, a pedal is used to control playback of voice dictations

Geometry

Pedal curve A pedal (from the Latin '' pes'' ''pedis'', "foot") is a lever designed to be operated by foot and may refer to: Computers and other equipment * Footmouse, a foot-operated computer mouse * In medical transcription, a pedal is used to control ...

, a curve derived by construction from a given curve *

Pedal triangle In geometry, a pedal triangle is obtained by projecting a point onto the sides of a triangle. More specifically, consider a triangle ''ABC'', and a point ''P'' that is not one of the vertices ''A, B, C''. Drop perpendiculars from ''P'' to the th ...

, a triangle obtained by projecting a point onto the sides of a triangle

Music

Albums

* ''Pedals'' (Rival Schools album) * ''Pedals'' (Speak album)

Other music

Bass drum pedal The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum's diameter much greater than the drum's depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. Th ...

, a pedal used to play a bass drum while leaving the drummer's hands free to play other drums with drum sticks, hands, etc. *

Effects pedal An effects unit or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing. Common effects include distortion/overdrive, often used with electric guitar in ele ...

, a pedal used commonly for electric guitars *

Pedal keyboard A pedalboard (also called a pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a bass pedalboard) is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low-pitched bass line of a piece of music. A pedalboard has long ...

, a musical keyboard operated by the player's feet *

Pedal harp The pedal harp (also known as the concert harp) is a large and technologically modern harp, designed primarily for use in art music. It may be played solo, as part of a chamber ensemble, or in an orchestra. It typically has 47 strings with seve ...

, a modern orchestral harp with pedals used to change the tuning of its strings *

Pedal point In music, a pedal point (also pedal note, organ point, pedal tone, or pedal) is a sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign (i.e. dissonant) harmony is sounded in the other parts. A pedal point sometimes function ...

, a type of nonchord tone, usually in the bass *

Pedal tone Pedal tones (or pedals) are special low notes in the harmonic series of brass instruments. A pedal tone has the pitch of its harmonic series' fundamental tone. Its name comes from the foot pedal keyboard pedals of a pipe organ, which are used ...

, a fundamental tone played on brass instruments *

Piano pedals Piano pedals are foot-operated levers at the base of a piano that change the instrument's sound in various ways. Modern pianos usually have three pedals, from left to right, the soft pedal (or una corda), the sostenuto pedal, and the sustaining ...

, typically three pedals used to soften, sustain, or selectively sustain notes played on a piano *

Pedal piano The pedal piano (or piano-pédalier or pédalier,) is a kind of piano that includes a pedalboard, enabling bass register notes to be played with the feet, as is standard on the organ. There are two broad types of pedal pianos: either the pedal ...

, a kind of piano that includes a pedalboard *

Player piano A player piano (also known as a pianola) is a self-playing piano containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism, that operates the piano action via programmed music recorded on perforated paper or metallic rolls, with more modern i ...

, a kind of piano which plays prerecorded music, some designs of which are driven by pedals

Transportation

Bicycle pedal The pedal is the part of a bicycle that the rider pushes with their foot to propel the vehicle. It provides the connection between the cyclist's foot or shoe and the crank allowing the leg to turn the bottom bracket spindle and propel the bicyc ...

, the part of a bicycle that the rider pushes with their foot to propel the vehicle *

Pedalo A pedalo (British English) or paddle boat (U.S., Canadian, and Australian English) is a human-powered watercraft propelled by the action of pedals turning a paddle wheel. Description A pedalo is a human-powered watercraft propelled by the ...

, a small boat, usually for recreation, propelled by one or more occupants using bicycle style pedals *

Automobile pedal Car controls are the components in automobiles and other powered road vehicles, such as trucks and buses, used for driving and parking. While controls like steering wheels and pedals have existed since the invention of cars, other controls have ...

, such as the accelerator, brake, and clutch *

Pedals (The Nottingham Cycling Campaign) Pedals is a voluntary organisation founded in 1979 to encourage more people to use bicycles and to campaign for safer and more attractive conditions for cyclists in the Nottingham area. Pedals campaigned to get Nottingham one of the country's l ...

, a cycling advocacy group in Nottingham, England *

Rudder pedal A conventional fixed-wing aircraft flight control system consists of flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and the necessary operating mechanisms to control an aircraft's direction in flight. Aircraft e ...

, to control yaw on an airplane

Other uses

Pedal bin A pedal (from the Latin '' pes'' ''pedis'', "foot") is a lever designed to be operated by foot and may refer to: Computers and other equipment * Footmouse, a foot-operated computer mouse * In medical transcription, a pedal is used to control p ...

, a container with a lid operated by a foot pedal *

Pedal bone The coffin bone, also known as the pedal bone (U.S.), is the bottommost bone in the front and rear legs of horses, cattle, pigs and other ruminants. In horses it is encased by the hoof capsule. Also known as the distal phalanx, third phalanx, or ...

or ''coffin bone'', the last phalanx and most distal bone in the front and rear legs of horses, cattle, pigs, and other ruminants *

Pedals (bear) Pedals (died October 2016, New Jersey, United States) was an American black bear (''Ursus americanus'') that walked upright on its hind legs due to injuries on its front paws. After videos of the bear were posted on the internet, more than 300, ...