Pendulate
adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To swing like a pendulum.
"There is an old trick of suspending a shilling by a thread, and causing it to pendulate within a glass , so as to strike its sides , the thread being held between the finger and thumb ."
- 2 To vacillate between states, especially states of arousal and of relaxation.
"What's important to realize is that you can pendulate—swing back and forth—between these sensations of expansion and contraction."
- 1 pendulous.
"Here the rachis is bent at the point of its origin, and thereby it produces pendulate inflorescence."
Example
More examples"There is an old trick of suspending a shilling by a thread, and causing it to pendulate within a glass , so as to strike its sides , the thread being held between the finger and thumb ."
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