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Definition of Pendulums
1. pendulum [n] - See also: pendulum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pendulums
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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