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Definition

a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity — such as is seen in some mechanical clocks

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a change that is roughly proportional and in the opposite direction of a prior change — such as a change in opinion

The clock uses a pendulum to keep time.

pendulum = a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity

Now the pendulum has swung the other direction and voters are demanding...
The familiar pendulum swing was to happen once more, and then stop.
George Orwell -- 1984

pendulum = change to the opposite direction

The measured movement of the pendulum disturbed them not at all.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

pendulum = a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity — such as is seen in some mechanical clocks

With every blow Kuba swung back and forth like the pendulum of a grandfather clock.
Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed

pendulum = a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity — such as is seen in some mechanical clocks

or:

a change that is roughly proportional and in the opposite direction of a prior change — such as a change in opinion

It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang;
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death

pendulum = a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity (such as is seen in some mechanical clocks)

Increase the swing of the pendulum, increase, increase, come up and bear against that point of furthest balance— increase—increase— "Heave!"
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

pendulum = something heavy that swings back and forth

The hoist swung like a pendulum above the city.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
The pendulum beat the seconds, which each player eagerly counted, as he listened, with mathematical regularity.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
The silence is heavy between us, everything past and remembered and forgotten and wanted swinging there like a pendulum.
Lauren Oliver -- Before I Fall
He stepped towards the bathroom, the yellow pendulum of lamp beside his knees.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
She dangles them before me like a pendulum.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
It had no effect upon the cries; no pendulum could be more regular.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
In Silvester the Second a famous magician ascended the papal throne, although he was notorious for having invented the pendulum clock.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Let there be consummation, and superfluity be finished from the next drop of the pendulum onward!
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Her leg was swinging like a pendulum, and the troll's breath was breaking over her face in rancid waves.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
The hard part for them back then was inventing a clock that would work on a boat (pendulums don't work on boats).
Andy Weir -- The Martian
Pendulum rides are a little like the swing sets you might remember from your childhood.
Annenberg Learner -- Amusement Park Physics
His little hands swiveled at the wrists, his fingers snapped, and his head swung side to side like a pendulum.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

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