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pendulum
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n. A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pendulum is a 1969 film starring George Peppard . It was the first feature directed by experienced TV director George Schaefer.
Usage examples of pendulum.
Achamian simply stared in blank horror, an anguished pendulum slowly swinging to and fro, to and fro .
The mechanical analog would be a pendulum twisted to the side by a constant torque, resting motionless, cocked at an angle below the horizontal.
Above the Boys, a giant metronome, outlined in coloured lights, swung its chromium-tipped pendulum in the same measure.
For the aid so freely given him in the writing of this book and the obtaining of information on seamanship, gunnery, ship-design and the Gangway Pendulum, the author is profoundly grateful to Anna Mosser Roberts Booth Tarkington R.
Grandma a constant, a clock, a pendulum, a face to tell all time by at noon, or in the middle of sick nights when, raved with fever, we saw her forever by our beds, never gone, never away, always waiting, always speaking kind words, her cool hand icing our hot brows, the tappet of her uplifted forefinger unsprung to let a twine of cold mountain water touch our flannel tongues.
Once she saw the Breguet watch swinging like a pendulum before her eyes, measuring away her life.
Chavasse also knew that it was Dinah who had located him in the Limbo slave camp, using a map, a small brass pendulum, and his own very special Breguet gold watch as a contact.
Clinging together, they swung like an octopedal pendulum above the inverted clockface of Theeo, hooked on a taut line.
Inter marmoreas Leonorae pendula colles Fortunata nimis Machina dicit horas.
The rope snapped taut, the axe held its place, man and mantispid swung two and a half times like the working end of a pendulum, and that was the end of that drama.
Like a lean, swaying pendulum, he made his precarious way back to the stringpiece of the pier and whistled a signal.
Tony and Angelo were swinging head down, side by side, timing their swings identically like mass-produced clock pendulums.
Daon Ramon Barrens, a sunwheel priest blots fresh blood from a bronze pendulum, then straightens in triumph and taps a smeared finger on a map.
Some ticks were soft taps, others were chimes, others were the sombre clacks of a pendulum.
The loudest sound in the room will be the big pendulum ticktocking back and forth.