Pendulum

/ˈpɛnd͡ʒələm/

Synonyms for "pendulum" (83 found)

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Closest matches (17)

array articulation bank buzz catena catenation chainchain reactionchaining concatenation connection consecution continuum counterweight course cycle descent

Strong matches (25)

drapery droneendless beltendless roundfile filiation fixativeflywheel effectgamut gradation gyroscope humindian fileline lineage metronome monotone nexus oscillator pendant

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periodicity plenum

Noun(3 words)

oscillating weightoscillation oscillators

Related words (41)

powder trainprogression queue range rank recurrence reticulation rockerrocking chairrocking stonerotation round routine row run scale seesaw sequence series shuttle

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shuttlecocksingle filespectrum stabilizer string succession swath swing teeterteeter totterteeter-totter teeterboard teetery-bender thread tier train vibrator windrow

Noun(3 words)

swingswinging weightwobbler

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

6 entries

apparatus concept instrumentmechanical devicemetaphor setup

More specific

5 entries

Foucault pendulumclock pendulumeconomic pendulumpolitical pendulumtorsion pendulum

Collocations

6 entries

Foucault pendulumclock pendulumpendulum clockpendulum motionpendulum periodswinging pendulum

Inflections

1 entries

pendulums

Derivations

3 entries

pendulate pendulation pendulous

Translations

82 translations across 62 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

lavjerrës noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Arabic

3 entries

بَنْدُول noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
رَقَّاص noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
نُوَاس noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Armenian

1 entries

ճոճանակ noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

kəfgir noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Basque

1 entries

pendulu noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Belarusian

1 entries

ма́ятнік noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Bulgarian

1 entries

маха́ло noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Burmese

1 entries

ချိန်သီး noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Catalan

1 entries

pèndol noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

擺 /摆 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
擺鐘 /摆钟 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
鐘擺 /钟摆 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Czech

1 entries

kyvadlo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Danish

1 entries

pendul noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Dutch

1 entries

slinger noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Esperanto

1 entries

pendolo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Estonian

1 entries

pendel noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Finnish

1 entries

heiluri noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

French

1 entries

pendule noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Galician

1 entries

péndulo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Georgian

1 entries

ქანქარა noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

German

1 entries

Pendel noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Greek

1 entries

εκκρεμές noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Hebrew

1 entries

מְטוּטֶלֶת noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Hindi

3 entries

दोलक noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
लंगर noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
लोलक noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Hungarian

1 entries

inga noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Icelandic

4 entries

dingull noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
hengill noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
kólfur noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
pendúll noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Ido

1 entries

pendulo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Indonesian

1 entries

bandul noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Italian

1 entries

pendolo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Japanese

1 entries

振り子 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Kazakh

1 entries

маятник noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Khmer

2 entries

បណ្ដូន noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
ប៉ោល noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Korean

1 entries

진자 noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

маятник noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Lao

1 entries

ໝາກກະໂຕ້ນ noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Latin

1 entries

pendulum noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Latvian

1 entries

svārsts noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Lithuanian

2 entries

svyruoklė noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
švytuoklė noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Macedonian

1 entries

нишало noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Malay

1 entries

bandul noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Mongolian

2 entries

дүүжин noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
ᠳᠡᠭᠦᠵᠢᠩ noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Māori

1 entries

tārere noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

pendel noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

رقاص noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Persian

3 entries

آونگ noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
رقاصک noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
پاندول noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Polish

1 entries

wahadło noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Portuguese

1 entries

pêndulo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Romanian

1 entries

pendul noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Russian

1 entries

ма́ятник noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

klátno noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
кла́тно noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Slovak

1 entries

kyvadlo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Slovene

1 entries

nihalo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Spanish

1 entries

péndulo noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Swedish

1 entries

pendel noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Tajik

2 entries

ованг noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
раққосак noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Thai

1 entries

ลูกตุ้ม noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Turkish

3 entries

pandül noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
rakkas noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
sarkaç noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Turkmen

1 entries

maýatnik noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Ukrainian

2 entries

вага́дло noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
ма́ятник noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Uyghur

1 entries

ماياتنىك noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Uzbek

1 entries

mayatnik noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Vietnamese

2 entries

con lắc noun (body suspended from a fixed support)
quả lắc noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Volapük

1 entries

pendül noun (body suspended from a fixed support)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In her latest works she lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again.

Source: tatoeba (1248084)

Not a great deal of energy is required for keeping a free moving pendulum in a state of oscillation.

Source: tatoeba (5427825)

He reached into the case and stopped the pendulum.

Source: tatoeba (5534887)

The pendulum swung back and forth.

Source: tatoeba (6980534)

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