Pedal

A pedal (from the Latin pedis, "foot") is a lever designed to be operated by foot and may refer to:

• Footmouse, a foot-operated computer mouse
• In medical transcription, a pedal is used to control playback of voice dictations

• Pedal curve, a curve derived by construction from a given curve
• Pedal triangle, a triangle obtained by projecting a point onto the sides of a triangle

• Pedals (Rival Schools album)
• Pedals (Speak album)

• Bass drum pedal, 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, a pedal used commonly for electric guitars
• Pedal keyboard, a musical keyboard operated by the player's feet
• Pedal harp, a modern orchestral harp with pedals used to change the tuning of its strings
• Pedal point, a type of nonchord tone, usually in the bass
• Pedal tone, a fundamental tone played on brass instruments
• Piano pedals, typically three pedals used to soften, sustain, or selectively sustain notes played on a piano
• Pedal piano, a kind of piano that includes a pedalboard
• Player piano, a kind of piano which plays prerecorded music, some designs of which are driven by pedals
• The damper mechanism on a vibraphone, also known as a "pedal"

• Bicycle pedal, the part of a bicycle that the rider pushes with their foot to propel the vehicle
• Pedalo, a small boat, usually for recreation, propelled by one or more occupants using bicycle style pedals
• Automobile pedal, such as the accelerator, brake, and clutch, see car controls
• Pedals (The Nottingham Cycling Campaign), a cycling advocacy group in Nottingham, England
• Rudder pedal, to control yaw on an airplane

• Pedal bin, a container with a lid operated by a foot pedal
• Pedal bone 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)

• Pedal boat (disambiguation)
• Pedal Pusher (disambiguation)
• Peddle, to sell something by going from place to place
• Peddle (surname)
• Petal (disambiguation)