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Swinging back and forth freely under gravity
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pendular
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Word definitions for pendular in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Characteristic of the motion of a pendulum 2 pendulous
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1734, from French pendulaire , from pendule , from pendre (see pendant ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pendular \Pen"du*lar\, a. Pendulous.
Usage examples of pendular.
The crowd watched, entranced by the subtle pendular movement of the body, asking themselves in low whispers what had happened.
Yet he could not stand by, even though he had schooled himself to do so, tried to quell the pendular motion of self-interest and duty that had plagued him throughout the morning.
The mission was terminated after eight and one half days of a planned three-week mission because telemetry indicated Bonnie was seriously ill, afflicted by such unusual troubles as loss of circadian rhythm, rapid changes from one to another of the four normal levels of sleep, and pendular eye movementabnormal swinging from side to side.
Dad picked one up to add to his pendular collection and it made a sudden motion of rip and snag, catching Dad on the cuff of his shirt, and tearing it, and Dad slung the creature against the wall, and it left its imprint there as it collapsed to the floor, clinging on to a piece of sacking with its jagged teeth, refusing to die.