Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or resembling the motion of a pendulum; swinging back and forth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or relating to a pendulum: as, pendular vibration.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pendulous.
Examples
“A Wall Street Journal reporter observed one philosophical musing tacked to the admiral's bulletin board in 1983: "The American People are pendular.”
“I am a believer in the pendular theory of inanity, and these wobblies are so far out of their minds that the backlash has to be coming.”
“Even when his stagger was at its worst, when his movements became reckless, pendular lurches, he labored not to let the strain of it show on his face.”
“In the history of human thought and social organization there is an interesting pendular swing between conflicting ideas so that, about the time we wake up to recognize that thought is swinging one way, we may be fairly sure that soon it will be swinging the other.”
“It must have an ideal material point, an ideal rigid thread, an ideal point of suspension; and then the pendular movement is translated by a formula.”
“But to this calculus, all-powerful so long as it does not leave the domain of the ideal, let us submit a very modest reality: the fall of a grain of sand, the pendular movement of a hanging body.”
“This creates a projectile with "swing," a form of pendular motion that increases angular acceleration, facilitating throws of greater distances.”
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“She stands with feet spread wide, her petite body against the whooping pendular breasts whose size and weight threaten to topple her.”
“Creatures of the twilight, they are illuminated with pendular lanterns as they undress each other.”
“Cartier's Astrorégulator movement offers an alternative solution by fixing the escapement, the oscillator and the pendular seconds onto the rotor - in effect using gravity instead of fighting it.”
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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whichbe Of, like or pertaining to a pendulum. (from Phrontistery) May 25, 2008