Definition of Pendulums

1. Noun. (plural of pendulum) ¹

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Definition of Pendulums

1. pendulum [n] - See also: pendulum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pendulums

pendulines
pendulosities
pendulosity
pendulous
pendulous heart
pendulous palate
pendulously
pendulousness
pendulousnesses
pendulum
pendulum clock
pendulum rhythm
pendulum watch
pendulumlike
pendulums (current term)
pene
pene-
pene-enclave
pene-exclave
penecontemporaneous
penecontemporaneously
penectomies
pened
penelope
peneplain
peneplains
peneplane

Literary usage of Pendulums

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"About this general movement of the pendulums which might be included in the previous section of this report, because it only refers to observations ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1895)
"Two determinations of this difference had already been made ; the officers of the United States Coast Survey swung the Kater pendulums at Sydney in, ..."

3. A Text-book of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"If one of the equal pendulums is set swinging, it will gradually share its motion with the ... Let us call the two equal pendulums, A and B, and the third, ..."

4. Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements by John Milne (1899)
"Definition of an earth pulsation—Indications of pendulums—Indications of ... Indication of pendulums.—pendulums which have been suspended for the purposes ..."

5. The Tutor's Guide: Being a Complete System of Arithmetic, with Various by Charles Vyse (1806)
"VIBRATION of pendulums. ' - IT hath been found by Experiment, that a Pendulum 39,2 Inches ... (9) What Difference is there in the Length of two pendulums, ..."

6. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1871)
"Compensating pendulums. — The length of a pendulum alone determines its times of ... pendulums in which this defect is remedied by a self-adjusting ..."

7. An Essay Towards a System of Mineralogy by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Gustav von Engeström (1788)
"... of compound pendulums for the beft fort of regulating clocks, for agronomical ... and, on, account of their appearance, are called grid-Iron pendulums. ..."

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